Brother Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

— Paulo Freire

We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to…

— Dorothy Day

“There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify all means of self-preservation, including the persecution and…

— H. N. Ellessy

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

— Paulo Freire

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

— James Hervey

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.

— Umar

“And those who flee for Allah's sake after they are oppressed, We shall certainly give them a good abode in the world; and the…

— Compton Gage

In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the in- justice…

— Erich Fromm

Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is the opium…

— Karl Marx