Oppressor
One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.
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Oppressor Quotations
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James A. Baldwin
The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
Emile M. Cioran
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
Andrea Dworkin
Oppressor Translations
oppressor in German is Schinder
oppressor in Italian is vessatore
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