Suffering Quote by Kallistos Ware

“No one, alas, more oppressive than the oppressed.”

— Junot Díaz

“Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The oppressed are sometimes the most rabid of oppressors" (119).”

— Elizabeth Nunez

“We must side with the oppressed on every occasion, even when they are in the wrong, though without losing sight of the fact that…

— Emil M. Cioran

“There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify all means of self-preservation, including the persecution and…

— H. N. Ellessy

“This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.”

— Paulo Freire

“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.”

— Audre Lorde

“We who are oppressed love those who fight against oppression.”

— Louis Farrakhan Muhammad Sr

“The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to hurt the…

— John Bowlby

“When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”

— George Orwell

“Too many people who know more about the lives of others than they do their own.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker