Top 127 Oppressors Quotes & Sayings

Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.

In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.

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

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

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

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

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

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.

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

It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed.

My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself. The oppressors are no longer really human, whatever uniform they wear.

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen." "Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world.

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.

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

I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've seen such hate on the faces of too many sheriffs in the South. And I'm not going to let my oppressor dictate to me what method I must use. Our oppressors have used violence. Our oppressors have used hatred. Our oppressors have used rifles and guns. I'm not going to stoop down to their level. I want to rise to a higher level. We have a power that can't be found in Molotov cocktails.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both

Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.

Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies-hunger, misery, and despair.

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.

We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.

The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.

Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.

Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We've been loving our oppressors for a long time, and nothing has changed - that love has to be reciprocated.

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.

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

We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable.

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

It's time Pakistani women are able to stand up and hold their oppressors accountable, no matter how strong or influential they are. Don't be scared. They are strong because we are weak - lets change that.

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Our parents are our first oppressors.