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Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies.… — Alveda King
As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're… — Alan Moore
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. — Maximilien Robespierre
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. — Lech Walesa
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their… — Lorraine Hansberry
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. — Paulo Freire
The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic… — Paulo Freire
many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader… — Terry Goodkind
Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they… — Alan Moore
We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible,… — Jean Vanier
I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was… — G.A. Henty
No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from… — Paulo Freire
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've seen such hate… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men… — Audre Lorde
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which… — Paulo Freire
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. — James Madison
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your… — Georg Buchner
The danger is that the cruel arts of their oppressors have enchained their minds, have kept them in the ignorance of children, and as incapable… — Thomas Jefferson
Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up… — Yuri Orlov
...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessnessin the past, despite all the injustices that we have enduredtoday,… — Unknown Author

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