Doe Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

— Bell Hooks

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as…

— Paulo Freire

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

— Barbara Deming

Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the…

— Theodor Adorno

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

— Nelson Mandela

Each and every life that has fled communism has proven how the will to pursue democracy and freedom, even in the face of oppression,…

— Francis X. Suarez

Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order…

— Leo Strauss

My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going…

— Septima Poinsette Clark

“Naming oppressive realities, in and of itself, has not brought about the kinds of changes for oppressed groups that it can for more privileged…

— bell hooks

“The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.”

— Paulo Freire

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

— Joseph de Maistre