Oppression Oppressor Quotes

#1. Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#2. I love New York. Love it.

Taraji P. Henson

#3. The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant group.

Simon Tam

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

Wally Lamb

#5. The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.

A.R. Bernard

#6. People who act like assholes get treated like assholes

J.D. Robb

#7. She'd say thank you for giving her boy back something that left him when she did.

Jamie McGuire

#8. It's like the television equivalent of one of those cymbal-banging monkey toys being duct-taped to your forehead.

Matthew Norman

#9. My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#10. Ignorance is the supreme oppressor.

Bryant McGill

#11. Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

Derrick A. Bell

#12. One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.

Simone De Beauvoir

#13. Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.

Jorge Ramos

#14. Go forth and mutilate fish.

Janice Hardy

#15. But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

Cherrie Moraga

#16. The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.

Naomi Klein

#17. Resherphire: True freedom is not that which is granted by an oppressor. It is a self-evident right, not something that originates from an external force.

Angry Zodd

#18. Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#19. You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#20. Hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.

Charlotte Forten Grimke

#21. Assist your Muslim brother, whether he be an oppressor or oppressed. "Bu how shall we doit when he is an oppressor?" enquired a companion. Muhammad replied, "Assisting an oppressor by forbidding and witholding him from oppression.

Anonymous

#22. We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt

#23. If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Desmond Tutu

#24. What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.

Hugh Masekela

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

Jon Stewart

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

#27. In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.
(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)

Eugene V. Debs

#28. Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

Lerone Bennett Jr.

#30. To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.

Umar

#31. The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

Darnell Lamont Walker

#32. We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#33. And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is.

Terry Pratchett

#34. If you are blaming the oppressed rather than the oppressor you know that something is wrong.

Adam Snowflake

#35. The oppressed must cry out to God.
The oppressor must repent of his sins.
The liberated must give thanks.

Matshona Dhliwayo