Ends Quote by Joan D. Chittister

The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and…

— Bobby Seale

If you're on the side of the oppressor, or you're defending the oppressor, or you're actually trying to humanize the oppressor, then that's a…

— Linda Sarsour

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

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

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the…

— Paulo Freire

It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate,…

— Bell Hooks

Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many:…

— Mark Twain

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

— Richard Price

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

— James Madison

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you…

— Anonymous