Aspiration Quote by 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

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

— Audre Lorde

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

— Paulo Freire

“Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all these things,…

— Liezi

“Yet it is—paradoxical though it may seem—precisely in the response of the oppressed to the violence of their oppressors that a gesture of love…

— Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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

“The promise of aspiration is that it is evolutionary. The human condition is such that we are always aspiring to be something more, something…

— Lorii Myers

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

'Oppressed' is one of the terms that's very, very sellable and easily thrown around these days because everybody feels it, no matter what side…

— David Draiman

The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Paulo Freire

“But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to…

— Audre Lorde