Oppressed Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom, Oppressor, Demanded

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

Mind, Weapon, Oppressor

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Vladimir Lenin

Once, Few, Class

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.
Karl Marx

Religion, Heart, Soul

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
Tony Campolo

Change, Care, Everything

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Erica Jong

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Alexander Pope

Blessed, Someone, Another

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
Angela Davis

Politics, Struggle, Fight

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
William J. Clinton

Home, Freedom, Strong

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

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Clarence Darrow

Help, Seeking, Offense

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone Weil

Nothing, Human, Person

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
Simon Wiesenthal

Smile, Situation, Weapon

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
George W. Bush

Women, Hope, War

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti

Love, Single, Greed

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
Malcolm X

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Charles Baudelaire

Men, Artist, Order

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Carter G. Woodson

Education, Good, Others

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
Thabo Mbeki

Dark, Continent, Described

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

History, Truth, Simple

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
Mahalia Jackson

Black, Before, Talk

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
Margaret Atwood

Boring, Beginning, Cultural

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.
Tony Campolo

Work, Special, Poor

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.
Tony Campolo

America, Poor, Growing

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

Great, Idea, Crime

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Time, Freedom, Long

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.
Aly Khan

Islam, Social, Beginning

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.
Imran Khan

Country, Move, Scared

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

Rise, Break, Whenever

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
Patti Smith

Writing, Artist, Felt

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