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

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world! — Richard Price

Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. — Terry Goodkind

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The fight for equality on any front does not equate to the oppression of the oppressors. — Luvvie Ajayi

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor. — Jane Elliott

Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed. — Walter Wink

Could you free yourself from the chains of the oppressors and learn to live in the beauty of YOU? — Tony Curl

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors. — Ameen Rihani

Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive? — Miriam Toews

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. — Paulo Freire

In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. — Paulo Freire

We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed. — Remi Kanazi

Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making. — Aniruddha Sastikar

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. — Paulo Freire

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive — Martin Luther King Jr.

Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers. — Max Anders

Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors. — Jerry Rubin

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

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors. — Eric Hoffer

Bread and water will not break me, and if you choose to isolate me, I shall have only but more time to plot against my oppressors. — J.V. Hart

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. — Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors — Nelson Mandela

When it comes to revolutionaries, trust only the sad ones. The enthusiastic ones are the oppressors of tomorrow. — William T. Vollmann

P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it. — Paulo Freire

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus. — Richard Pryor

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts. — Jean-Paul Marat

The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors. — M.F. Moonzajer

The truth about oppressors is that they are also as fearful as their victims if not suffering continuous panic attacks about losing power — Peter Mutanda

Don't oppress, don't accept to be oppressed and you will live free. — Auliq Ice

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. — Andrew Vachss

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is impossible to Name and Act against oppression if there are no Nameable oppressors. — Mary Daly

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. — Maximilien De Robespierre

This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well. — Paulo Freire

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors. — Darnell Lamont Walker