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“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

When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling…

— John Dewey

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

— Audre Lorde

When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of hedonism -…

— Allen W. Wood

The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity,…

— Paulo Freire

Before, we were taught to place limits on our thoughts and emotions. Now we are taught to be open minded and to express ourselves.…

— Anonymous

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by…

— Anonymous

“Although we all have various espoused theories, when we find ourselves in an embarrassing or psychologically threatening situation, almost all of us activate just…

— Roger Schwarz

“We can learn not to take things personally, to understand that behaviors are the results of conditioning, and to make conscious efforts to understand…

— Tyler Henry

“Many psychologists assert that creating systems that cause feelings of powerlessness is one of the most damaging things we can do to fellow human…

— Gene Kim

“Most of us have been deeply shaped by the false notion that in order for people to behave better they need to feel worse…

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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

— Paulo Freire