Contrary Quote by Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

— Jean Baudrillard

Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck…

— Florynce Kennedy

I feel liberated being around women who are liberated.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's…

— Florynce Kennedy

A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has…

— Betty Ford

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

— Barbara Deming

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

— Paulo Freire