Free Quote by Steven Biko

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Paulo Freire

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

— Paulo Freire

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

— George Mason

“The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed”

— Steve Biko

We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun,…

— Ferdinand Marcos

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

— Berthold Auerbach

We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an…

— Henry Steele Commager

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

— Mikhail Bakunin

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

— Anonymous