Hated Quote by Eric Hoffer

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

— Paulo Freire

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

— Eric Hoffer

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them';

— Paulo Freire

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub…

— Paulo Freire

“There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify all means of self-preservation, including the persecution and…

— H. N. Ellessy

“We must side with the oppressed on every occasion, even when they are in the wrong, though without losing sight of the fact that…

— Emil M. Cioran

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

— Paulo Freire

“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.”

— Audre Lorde

“Yet it is—paradoxical though it may seem—precisely in the response of the oppressed to the violence of their oppressors that a gesture of love…

— Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

— Paulo Freire