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Being Oppressed Quotes & Sayings

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Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country? — Ambeth R. Ocampo

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why? — Paulo Freire

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

I would be irresponsible if I sat back and did nothing while they are being oppressed." "I know you're right, dear. I'm just concerned for our family. — L.R.W. Lee

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression. — Wanda Sykes

Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then. — Thomas Hardy

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. — William Butler Yeats

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

Being oppressed means the absence of choices — Bell Hooks

At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It became a sapling, which became a seed. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well. — Bonnie Tyler

Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow. — Libba Bray

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

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. — Malcolm X

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

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others. — Nelson Mandela

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

He could wait while I threw some laundry in. That's right ladies. I do laundry. — K.A. Stewart

We need to broaden the horizon of our faith, putting more difficult tasks in front of us each time — Sunday Adelaja

Come see the violence inherit in the system!! Help Help I'm being oppressed!! — Monty Python And The Holy Grail

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. — Maximilien Robespierre

You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true. — Pablo Neruda

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

I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day. — Landon Liboiron

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. — Ernest Becker

In the middle of these cogitations, apprehensions, and reflections, — Daniel Defoe

I learned from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed — Mahatma Gandhi

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us. — Thomas Jordan Jarvis