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In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short…

— Howard Zinn

There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the other, filling…

— Ingrid Betancourt

“Those tears, that anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral energy for the present. And the lines are not always clear. In the…

— Howard Zinn

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,…

— Alan Moore

“When a long abuse of power is corrected, it is generally replaced by an opposite violence. In the new dispensation all that was good…

— John McGahern

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

— Paulo Freire

“This violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.”

— Paulo Freire

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

— Coretta Scott King

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

— Anonymous

In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create…

— Paulo Freire

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

— Eric Hoffer

“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