Oppressors Quotes
Oppressors Quote of the day
I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.
Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.
If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.
The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
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.
Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
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.
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.
Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.
As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.
Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.
We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.
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.
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.
My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself. The oppressors are no longer really human, whatever uniform they wear.
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.
Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.
Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!
Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.
Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.
It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.