Oppressed Quotes

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.

Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.

Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.

If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.

An oppressed people will always rise.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

We cannot guarantee the human rights of any oppressed group alone.

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them.

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.