quotes about Oppressed
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The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.
-- A. R. Bernard -
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
-- Alexander Pope -
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
-- Bell Hooks -
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 -
The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
-- Eric Hoffer -
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
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An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
-- Henry ClaySource : Henry Clay (1857). “The speeches of Henry Clay”, p.142
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Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed.
-- Ignacio Ellacuria -
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
-- Lorraine Hansberry -
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
-- Marek Edelman -
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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 -
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 WittigSource : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
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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 -
But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
-- Nikki Giovanni -
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Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
-- Ogden Nash -
The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'
-- Paulo Freire -
Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.
-- Sheila Rowbotham -
Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
-- Taslima NasrinSource : Interview with Kerry O'Brien on "Lateline", ABC TV, 1995.
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The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
-- Thomas Huxley -
To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
-- Umar -
The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them.
-- Josh Bernstein -
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
-- Julien Green -