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.
To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.
Jane Elliott
3.
If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.
Ibn Hazm
4.
It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.
Paulo Freire
5.
The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.
A. R. Bernard
6.
Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.
Walter Wink
7.
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
Derrick Bell
8.
Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors
Nelson Mandela
9.
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
Saadi
11.
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
Desmond Tutu
12.
But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
Nikki Giovanni
13.
The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'
Paulo Freire
14.
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