Behavior Quote by Paulo Freire

It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal.…

— Assata Shakur

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

— Karl Marx

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Paulo Freire

In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.

— Paulo Freire

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“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

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

— Rita Mae Brown

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

— Nelson Mandela

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

— Henry Clay