Oppressed famous quotes

The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.
-- A. R. Bernard

#Ignorance #Oppressed

The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
-- Alexander Pope

#Lying #Graves #Oppressed

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
-- Bell Hooks

#Rage #Oppressed

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
-- Clare Boothe Luce

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

#Sides #Oneself #Oppressed

The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Want #Oppressed

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Catholic #Position #Oppressed

An oppressed people will always rise.
-- Henning Mankell

#People #Oppressed

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
-- Henry Clay

#People #Break #Oppressed

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

#Remember #Oppressed

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
-- Lorraine Hansberry

#Groups #Oppressed

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

#Mean #Jew #Oppressed

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Wire #Levels #Oppressed

For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.
-- Monique Wittig

#Sex #Oppression #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.
-- Nelson Mandela

#Taken #Humanity #Oppressed

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
-- Nikki Giovanni

#Oppressed #Nonviolence

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
-- Ogden Nash

#Adversity #Prepared #Oppressed

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

#Models #Oppressed #Manhood

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

#Men #Feminist #Oppressed

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
-- Taslima Nasrin

#Atheist #Rights #Oppressed

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
-- Thomas Huxley

#Poor #Magna Carta #Oppressed

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
-- Umar

#Forgiving #Oppression #Oppressed

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

#Republican #Oppressed

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
-- Julien Green

#Tyrants #Consolation #Oppressed