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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. — Elie Wiesel

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart. — Louis De Bernieres

all over the world wars
people plagued
by the same ills as their oppressor
the real revolution is
to love myself. — Pamela Sneed

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

PSA72.4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. — Anonymous

You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Death takes in many people, but still lives alone. — Anthony Liccione

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. — Elie Wiesel

They have broken the yoke of the oppressor; and this they have done not by fighting but by surrendering. — A.W. Tozer

Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism. — Jorge Ramos

You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed. — Ali Meshkini

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery. — Bill Vaughan

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

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

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

The oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179) — Mev Puleo

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force. — Mary Brave Bird

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity. — Cherrie Moraga

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral. — Desmond Tutu

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

One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves. — James Allen

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. — Desmond Tutu

Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor. — Voltaire

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed. — Nikki Giovanni

To be an oppressor is dehumanizing and anti-human in nature, as it is to be a victim. — Bell Hooks

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. — Elie Wiesel

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

The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. — Steve Biko

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor. — Florence King

The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. — Emile M. Cioran

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God. — Cesar Chavez

Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways. - Proverbs 3:31 — James Ellroy

P40- for the oppressors..to 'be' is to have and to be the class of the "haves". — Paulo Freire

The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. — Barbara Deming

Reality, the oppressor's tongue. — Adrienne Rich

The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed! — Alexander Pope

But you have to remind yourself that perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. — Anne Lamott

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. — W.E.B. Du Bois

One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior. — Simone De Beauvoir

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be taken by the oppressed. — Martin Luther King Jr.

If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor. — Ibn Hazm

All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree. — Ishmael Reed

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers. — Che Guevara

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed. — Elie Wiesel

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. — Paulo Freire

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor? — Charles Lenox Remond

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society. — Paulo Freire

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. — Derrick A. Bell

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

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

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.

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt ... Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. — Cesar Chavez

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

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

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

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. — Lerone Bennett Jr.

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

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

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are — Darnell Lamont Walker

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. — James Russell Lowell

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.

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

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus

Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor.
Picard — Gene Roddenberry

Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus

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

If you refuse to use physical force, then you will be at the mercy of your oppressor! — Segun Magbagbeola

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong. — Carter G. Woodson

The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done. — Bobby Seale

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

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast. — John Greenleaf Whittier

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

Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor. — Saadi

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty. — George Jackson

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor. — Rick Bayan

Freedom is about life or death, I would rather die fighting for it than die running away from the oppressor — Peter Mutanda

Ignorance is the supreme oppressor. — Bryant McGill

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson