Ideology Quote by Terry Eagleton

“The oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this…

— Paulo Freire

“Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.”

— Paulo Freire

“When the people are not enlightened enough to exercise intelligent control, you take it from them, not to command their lives, but to create…

— R.J. Lawrence

It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total…

— Paulo Freire

“Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a…

— Timothy Snyder

“...only those who have the will and the power to shoot down their fellow men, are the real rulers in this, as in all…

— Lysander Spooner

“Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who,…

— Edward Crankshaw

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there…

— J.K. Rowling

“No one, alas, more oppressive than the oppressed.”

— Junot Díaz

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

— Audre Lorde