Feet Quote by Florynce Kennedy

Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck…

— Florynce Kennedy

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

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

— Nelson Mandela

'Oppressed' is one of the terms that's very, very sellable and easily thrown around these days because everybody feels it, no matter what side…

— David Draiman

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Paulo Freire

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

— Robin Morgan

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

— Michael K. Williams

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

— John Henrik Clarke

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough…

— Hugh Masekela

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr