Best Oppressors Quotes
71 Oppressors quotes by 56 unique authors
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Masters are those who have chosen only love. In every instance. In every moment. In every circumstance. Even as they were being killed, they loved…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes…
— Andrew Vachss
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Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.
— Jean-Paul Marat
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In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented…
— Henry Highland Garnet
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Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the…
— Joseph Campbell
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I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it),…
— Paulo Freire
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No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are…
— Peter Benchley
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Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors
— Nelson Mandela
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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,…
— Mark Twain
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Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries…
— Bertrand Russell
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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
— Jonathan Mayhew
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The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
— Desmond Tutu
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Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's…
— Jonathan Haidt
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There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more…
— Susan Powter
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But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered…
— Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
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God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into…
— William Ralph Inge
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Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen,…
— Albert Einstein
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Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could…
— William Butler Yeats
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The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.
— Martin Delany
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Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the…
— Mark Twain
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The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
— Eric Hoffer
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