A Quote by Nelson Mandela

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

Nelson Mandela

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Liberate Oppressed Oppressors Our Task

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Nelson Mandela
South African - Statesman
July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

Paulo Freire

Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.

Desmond Tutu

If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.

Mahmoud al-Zahar

To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.

Frederick Lenz

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Margaret Mead

Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you

Salman Rushdie

I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.

Louis J. Halle

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Nelson Mandela

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Why would we expect the French to fight to liberate the Iraqis when they wouldn't fight to liberate themselves?

Rush Limbaugh

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

Nelson Mandela

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

Marcus Garvey

In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.

Helmut Schmidt

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

Kim Il-sung

We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be.

Aslan Maskhadov

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