Culture Quote by William Lloyd Garrison

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

— Richard Price

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so,…

— Alan Moore

“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

“We must side with the oppressed on every occasion, even when they are in the wrong, though without losing sight of the fact that…

— Emil M. Cioran

“... but in the depths of their hearts, in that true and ultimate depth which is revealed to no one, there remained the memory…

— Ivo Andrić

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

— James Madison

“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

In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create…

— Paulo Freire

“When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The deep rumbling of discontent that we hear today is the thunder of disinherited masses rising from dungeons of oppression to the bright hills…

— Martin Luther King Jr

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope

— Carl F. H. Henry