Free The Oppressed Quotes

#1. Only when we are able to free the oppressed and heal those suffering from the curse of sickness can we really preach Christ's basic message: The Kingdom of God is at hand and the kingdom of Satan is being destroyed.

Francis S. MacNutt

#2. Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness,to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and ye break every yoke?

Anonymous

#3. Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

William Lloyd Garrison

#4. No one had to order an American to save the oppressed. It's part of their nature to see others live free, even at the sacrifice of their own lives.

Richard Fox

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

Paulo Freire

#6. I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

Britt Daniel

#7. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, / because he has anointed me / to bring glad tidings to the poor. / He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives / and recovery of sight to the blind, / to let the oppressed go free, / and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.

Stephen S. Wilbricht

#8. God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.

Jurgen Moltmann

#9. In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

Malcolm X

#10. When I walk in the front door after a shift, Lucy, I want your mouth on mine before I even get my jacket off

Tessa Bailey

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

Clare Boothe Luce

#12. The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.

Anais Nin

#13. Let's consider a series of lessons that lay the groundwork for our discussion of breaking free. I will list them as nine lessons about captivity and freedom. LESSON 1 The people of God can be oppressed by the enemy.

Beth Moore

#14. What did disappear - or, at least, what faded dramatically - was the willingness of the free world to take a firm stand in support of the oppressed.

Garry Kasparov

#15. Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman

Tracy Kauffman

#16. Don't oppress, don't accept to be oppressed and you will live free.

Auliq Ice

#17. There can be no greater motivator for evil than a huge sense of injustice!

Bill Ward

#18. She loved him, though not at this particular moment.

Ian McEwan

#19. The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

Sophie Swetchine

#20. Don't whine, complain, or make excuses.

John Wooden

#21. Oppressed with countless little daily cares, he had waited ... For an act. A free, considered act; that should pledge his whole life, and stand at the beginning of a new existence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#22. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

Christopher Nolan

#23. Clothed in facts truth feels oppressed. In the garb of poetry it moves easy and free.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Barbara Deming

#25. This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have been foolish enough to call it the 'Cradle of Liberty.' If it is the 'Cradle of Liberty,' they have rocked the child to death.

William Wells Brown

#26. Prayer is two way chatting zone between you and God. You chat and listen, He listens and He answers.

Euginia Herlihy

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

Silvia Tennenbaum

#28. Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#29. Loving confrontation can free both the oppressed from docility and the oppressor from sin.

Walter Wink

#30. P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.

Paulo Freire

#31. Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.

Aryeh Neier

#32. He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.

James Allen

#33. Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

Charles Frazier

#34. Ministry of Sound was actually the first club I ever played in the UK, it must have been around 1993. Being invited to play was a big thing and visited many times since - The Gallery always has a great crowd, great sound system and just a great night.

Paul Van Dyk

#35. My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

Robin Morgan

#36. Only mass education, he used to say, would free my people, arguing that an educated man could not be oppressed because he could think for himself.

Nelson Mandela

#37. Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing still more the wealth of the rich and the dominion of the strong, whilst leaving the poor in their misery and adding to the servitude of the oppressed.

Pope Paul VI

#38. To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

Stanley Hauerwas

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

Desmond Tutu

#40. Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

Ernest Mandel

#41. Jesus thought he was anointed by God to proclaim the gospel to the poor and to proclaim freedom for prisoners and recovered sight for the blind and to set the oppressed free. This is why he came.

Scot McKnight