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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 warspeople 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
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
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.
— Paulo Freire
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.
— Desmond Tutu
He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.
— James Allen
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.
— Nelson Mandela
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
— George Jackson
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
