Top 755 Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them.

I share the concerns around the world about everything from a lack of opportunity to groups of people being oppressed.

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

We're oppressed, I think, you know there's only 5 per cent of the world's population who are ginger? So it's a tough time for us gingers.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.

O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.

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

I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.

The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed as part of a broader historical and political attack on public values, civic literacy and economic justice. Crucial here is the need to engage how such an attack is aided and abetted by the emergence of a poisonous neoliberal public pedagogy that depoliticizes as much as it entertains and corrupts.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed.

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most vicious resistance to blackness that whiteness is able to throw up. I engage in a lot of intellectual combat with supremacists and with the predicate of white supremacy and white indifference to black identity, and brown and red and yellow identity too, for that matter.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.

With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.

I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their specialties-for example, Huxley, Ostwald, Karl Ludwig, Virchow, Billroth, Jowett, William G. Sumner, Halsted and Osler-men who knew nothing whatever about the so-called science of pedagogy, and would have derided its alleged principles if they had heard them stated.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

Superman! Champion of the oppressed. The physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

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

The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives that this is where you belong and this is where you are.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.