Top 705 Oppressed Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

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

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

I don't know why people like being oppressed.

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

I supported the right of oppressed people to armed struggle. That didn't mean I did it.

If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

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

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

If America oppresses, why do so many people risk their lives coming here to be oppressed?

The 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion.

It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

New Labour has created a society increasingly oppressed by the worry of personal debt.

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

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

We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.

Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.

I am a firm believer that an oppressed society gives birth to crime.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.

We cannot guarantee the human rights of any oppressed group alone.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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

Only when the oppressed are heard can we have an honest solutions based dialogue.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

An oppressed people will always rise.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor.

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.