Quote by Steven Pinker

“It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve…

— Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

“I suppose it's human tendency to treat the people who you've wronged badly though, isn't it? Easier to dismiss them if you can pretend…

— Lindsay Buroker

“Logic and morality made it impossible to accept an illogical and immoral reality; they engendered a rejection of reality which as a rule led…

— Primo Levi

“The fact that certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation, thus moving from one pole of the…

— Paulo Freire

“The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.”

— Richard Matheson

“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

“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

“peoples, like so many beasts, have fallen into the custom of each man thinking only of his own private interests and have reached the…

— Giambattista Vico

“For these creatures(humans) are for the most part malevolent and murderous by nature, able to tolerate others only insofar as they resemble themselves, capable…

— Doris Lessing

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under…

— Erich Fromm

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

— Gordon W. Allport

“I could not get used to the idea of ther being classes of people inherently inferior to oneself, to whom one could be as…

— Robyn Davidson