African-feminism Quote by Malebo Sephodi

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

— Margaret Atwood

“Oppression is domesticating. The gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge…

— Paulo Freire

“It is impossible to imagine to oneself a man who has no freedom otherwise as deprived of life”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this…

— Paulo Freire

“Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Sunday Adelaja

“When people are kept in abject poverty and illiteracy while others grow rich and “develop their personalities” at the former’s expense we speak of…

— Miroslav Volf

“If we consider our own reasoning to be absolutely right and the center of our focus is upon ourselves, we will feel oppressed by…

— Russell M. Stendal

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

— Audre Lorde

“People who are dependent live accordingly to the lives and needs of others, and are emotionally blocked from journeying down the road of self-actualisation,…

— The power of negative thinking Tony Humphreys pg 60

“People never believed of others what they couldn't imagine of themselves.”

— Meljean Brook

“Oppression is the seed of power; you will plant it against yourself”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih