To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.
A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
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.
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle.
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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.
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