Oppression Quote by Karl Marx

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in…

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— John Henrik Clarke

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

— Paulo Freire

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

— Paulo Freire

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

— Rita Mae Brown

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

— Henry Clay

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

— Paulo Freire

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

— Bell Hooks

'Oppressed' is one of the terms that's very, very sellable and easily thrown around these days because everybody feels it, no matter what side…

— David Draiman

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

— Martin Luther King Jr

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

— Paulo Freire

The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives that this…

— Zoya Akhtar