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Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
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[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
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.
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
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 ProphetHelping others
I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not. — Idries Shah
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
— Paulo Freire
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
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
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
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
Helping othersI 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
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
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
— Erica Jong
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 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