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

Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves. — Audre Lorde

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

Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. — Paulo Freire

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. — Gene Sharp

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

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God. — Jose Rizal

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

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed. — Paulo Freire

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

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

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

Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

P57- the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it. — Paulo Freire

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors. — Martin Delany

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. — James Madison

The liberation of adulthood as we'd conceived it from below was a pipe-dream; with oppressors deposed we became our own tyrants. — Lionel Shriver

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

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

The tie that binds her to her oppressors is unlike any other. The division of the sexes is a biological given, not a moment in human history. — Simone De Beauvoir

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

The warring love and hatred
love for his people and hatred for the oppressors of his people
that left him exhausted and sick in spirit. — Carson McCullers

Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors. — Miriam Makeba

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing. — Desmond Tutu

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

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

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; — Paulo Freire

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. — Paulo Freire

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Oppressors themselves acknowledge that even the weakest of their subjects must agree to be oppressed. — James P. Carse

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

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds. — Mahatma Gandhi

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. — Lech Walesa

The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate. — Eric Hoffer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.' — Paulo Freire

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

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

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

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

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

Never dance according to the tune of music played by your oppressors.
Pray to have enough courage, grace to be tolerant and compassionate. — Lailah Gifty Akita

P42- the oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them. — Paulo Freire