Arms Quote by Florynce Kennedy

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

— Edwin Markham

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

— John Henrik Clarke

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's…

— Florynce Kennedy

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.

— Umar

We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.

— Tariq Ramadan

“Oppression cannot teach justice. That task belongs to empathy.”

— Jamie Arpin-Ricci

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

— Julien Green

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved…

— Paulo Freire

I don't know what it's like to be oppressed.

— Matty Healy

“As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.”

— Paulo Freire