1.
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.
Desmond Tutu
'You must either align yourself with the subjugated or the tyrant. There is no middle ground.'
2.
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
Bell Hooks
The fury of the disadvantaged is not comparable to the wrath of the advantaged.
3.
It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.
Paulo Freire
4.
The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.
A. R. Bernard
5.
To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
Umar
6.
I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.
Colin Kaepernick
7.
Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors
Nelson Mandela
8.
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Alexander Pope
9.
Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed.
Ignacio Ellacuria
11.
The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them.
Josh Bernstein
12.
Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.
David Graeber
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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
Elie Wiesel
14.
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
Lorraine Hansberry
15.
The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'
Paulo Freire
16.
I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
Nelson Mandela
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God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
Desmond Tutu
18.
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
Marek Edelman
20.
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
Margaret Atwood
21.
But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
Nikki Giovanni
23.
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
Alexander Pope
24.
I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.
John Lennon
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It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
Eric Hoffer
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It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.
Eric Hoffer
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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.
Voltaire
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
Julien Green