Able Quote by Laverne Cox

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

— Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

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

— Audre Lorde

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub…

— Paulo Freire

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 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

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

— Paulo Freire

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts'…

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

“Do not be with the oppressor, help the oppressed and prevent the oppressor from being unfair.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih