Oppressed Quotes

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.

Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

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

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

Superman! Champion of the oppressed. The physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need.

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

And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.

In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.

a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.

Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

God is on the side of the oppressed.

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.