“ Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. ”
- Taslima Nasrin- Copy
- 2K
“ Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. ”
- Malcolm X- Copy
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“ It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power. ”
- Robert Mugabe- Copy
- 4K
“ In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 146
“ Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest. ”
- Mary Elizabeth Hewitt- Copy
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“ Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." — infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. ”
- Wendell Phillips- Copy
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“ Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity. ”
- Jane Meyerding- Copy
- 273
“ The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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“ The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths. ”
- Clare Boothe Luce- Copy
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“ The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. ”
- Steve Biko- Copy
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“ The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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“ If you oppress poor people, you insult the God who makes them; but kindness shown to the poor is an act of worship. ”
- Proverbs- Copy
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“ To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. ”
- Robert Conquest- Copy
- 862
“ Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. ”
- Maximilien Robespierre- Copy
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“ Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 218
“ He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable. ”
- Dominique de Menil- Copy
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“ We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
- 991
“ There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons — That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes — . ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
- 292
“ An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. ”
- Henry Clay- Copy
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“ Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 355
“ Being sensitive to the needs of the oppressed poor, creates a new world in which all persons affirm their full sense of humanity. ”
- Pedrito U. Maynard Reid- Copy
- 643
“ He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 59
“ Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 4K
“ Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses. ”
- Robin Wood- Copy
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