Forever Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

— Martin Luther King Jr

“The so-called what they called "illiterate" people would not remain oppressed forever. The desire for liberation will, indeed, someday manifests itself.”

— Henry Johnson Jr

A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by…

— Lorraine Hansberry

White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Here the mystery of drinking the cup becomes clear. The coming and leaving of friends, the experiences of love and betrayal, of care and…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their…

— Angela Merkel

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

— Martin Delany