Oppressed Quotes
Oppressed Quote of the day
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.
Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.
When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.
Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.
It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.
I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.
For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.
Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed
We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.
