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Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest. — Chinua Achebe

Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist. — Auliq Ice

Loving confrontation can free both the oppressed from docility and the oppressor from sin. — Walter Wink

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood. — Deborah Turbeville

Be courageous. Always be a voice for those who are oppressed. — Debasish Mridha

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up. — Pharrell Williams

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' — Margaret Atwood

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. — Wally Lamb

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks. — Edward Gibbon

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor. — Paulo Freire

The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation. — Mahmud Tarzi

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

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. — Clarence Darrow

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people. — Charles Lenox Remond

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

He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free. — James Allen

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

An oppressed people will always rise. — Henning Mankell

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

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. — Karl Marx

The oppressed must cry out to God.
The oppressor must repent of his sins.
The liberated must give thanks. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women. — Paulo Freire

Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; — Patrick O'Brian

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace. — Elijah Parish Lovejoy

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. — Isabel Allende

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Clothed in facts truth feels oppressed. In the garb of poetry it moves easy and free. — Rabindranath Tagore

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. — Robert Conquest

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

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed. — Jonny Steinberg

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me. — Mahalia Jackson

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest. — George MacDonald

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! — Thabo Mbeki

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

The more oppressed a group perceives itself to be, the more it will want to calculate when liberation will dawn. — N. T. Wright

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

The following afternoon, alone in their room, and oppressed by not yet having made the promised call to Connie ... — Jonathan Franzen

Saying of the Prophet
Helping others
I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not. — Idries Shah

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them. — Voltaire

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. — Bell Hooks

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

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

P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both. — Paulo Freire

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. — Kim Il-sung

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

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship. — Aryeh Neier

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The oppressed, subaltern, therefore, cannot speak through another and cannot articulate on their own.] — Anonymous

P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation. — Paulo Freire

Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed. — Tariq Ramadan

What did disappear - or, at least, what faded dramatically - was the willingness of the free world to take a firm stand in support of the oppressed. — Garry Kasparov

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

I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed. — Lewis Tappan

It's not my job to produce results. But it is my job to lay my hands on the sick, the oppressed, and to preach the Gospel. — Todd Bentley

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. — Karl Marx

It is necessary to distinguish the nationalism of the oppressing nations from the nationalism of the oppressed — Isaac Deutscher

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

The more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy. — John Calvin

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

Helping others
I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not. — Idries Shah

God tends to fight not on the side of the oppressed but on the side of the oppressor because the later has bigger battalions. — Chukwuemeka Ike

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi

If the government interferes to such an extent that the weak thrive and the strong are oppressed, society itself will collapse over time. — Amish Tripathi

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

President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people. — Mario Diaz-Balart

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor. — Walter Rodney

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed. — Simone De Beauvoir

The wealthy and powerful become ever more wealthy and more powerful, while the poor and oppressed grow ever more enslaved. — K. Makansi

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. — Nelson Mandela

If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them. — Terry Eagleton

If the eyes of a female cry over a man that oppressed her, than the Angels will curse him with every step he walks. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Jesus, Your Word says that You came "to proclaim liberty to the captives" and "to set at liberty those who are oppressed" (Luke 4:18). — Stormie O'martian

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away. — Laura Schlessinger

Only the oppressed, the weak, and the fools get offended. — Den Sjo

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. — Erica Jong

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed. — Saadi

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. — Nawal El Saadawi

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. — Simon Wiesenthal

No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed. — S. Alice Callahan

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

No one, alas, more oppressive than the oppressed. — Junot Diaz

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves. — Frantz Fanon

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

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale

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

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others. — Eric Hoffer

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. — Paulo Freire

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

If you are blaming the oppressed rather than the oppressor you know that something is wrong. — Adam Snowflake

All theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza