Bullets Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

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

— 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

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

'Oppressed' is one of the terms that's very, very sellable and easily thrown around these days because everybody feels it, no matter what side…

— David Draiman

“Unfortunately, oppression does not automatically produce only meaningful struggle. It has the ability to call into being a wide range of responses between partial…

— Chinua Achebe

“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

Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“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

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it’s becoming an oppressor,

— Jon Stewart

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

— 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

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough…

— Hugh Masekela