Definitions Quote by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

God is on the side of the oppressed.

— Desmond Tutu

“Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.”

— Namsoon Kang

“Theology ought to escape from their textbooks and invade absolutely every living activity”

— Michael S. Lawson

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

— Desmond Tutu

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“By their peculiar “reasoning,” too, theologians have sanctioned most of the ills of the ages. They justified the Inquisition, serfdom, and slavery. Theologians of…

— Carter G. Woodson

Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.

— James H. Cone

The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane…

— Aldous Huxley

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

— Paulo Freire

True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.

— Erwin McManus

This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their…

— Barack Obama