Quotes on Oppressed

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

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.

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.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

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

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than be an oppressor. Be gentle rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice.