Oppressed Quotes - Page 18

• What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

  Dominique de Menil

  Moving, Action, Dignity

  50 Copy quote

• The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Country, Moving

  18 Copy quote

• The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Struggle, Support

  Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau, July 1936.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Humanity, Long Walk To Freedom

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and for compassion, against cruelty. There is a lot of suffering in the world, but how much suffering can be addressed with literally no time or effort on our part? We can just stop supporting it, by making different choices.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Compassion, Choices, Effort

  "Resolved: Eating Animals Is Indefensible" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2010.

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Rights, People

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism at the State Department in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 19, 2015.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.

  John Trudell

  White, America, People

  "The Indigenous Voice: Visions and Realities (Volume 2)". Book edited by Roger Moody, 1988.

  210 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Silvia Tennenbaum

  Freedom, Society, Members

  6 Copy quote

• But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Men, Existential

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.45, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

  Saint Augustine

  Evil, Lazy, Taught

  5 Copy quote

• It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

  Eric Hoffer

  Shapes, Hated, Oppressors

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

  John Lennon

  Not Sure, Realising

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, People, Mind

  6 Copy quote

• I speak about androids because I think the android represents the new 'other.' You can compare it to being a lesbian or being a gay man or being a black woman ... What I want is for people who feel oppressed or feel like the 'other' to connect with the music and to feel like, 'She represents who I am.'

  Janelle Monae

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

  Deborah Turbeville

  Eerie, Atmosphere, Location

  8 Copy quote

• I wish to see the sons and daughters of the world in Peace and busily employed in the more agreeable amusement of fulfilling the first and great commandment, Increase and Multiply : as an encouragement to which we have opened the fertile plains of the Ohio to the poor, the needy and the oppressed of the Earth; any one therefore who is heavy laden, or who wants land to cultivate, may repair thither and abound, as in the Land of promise, with milk and honey: the ways are preparing, and the roads will be made easy, thro' the channels of Potomac and James river.

  George Washington

  Daughter, Encouragement, Son

  4 Copy quote

• Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophy, Doe, Helping

  29 Copy quote

• I'm not making excuses for the missed opportunities of the Israelis, or the lack of generosity, the lack of empathy that I think goes hand-in-hand with the suspicion. So, yes, there is more that the Israelis need to do to really demonstrate that they do understand the pain of an oppressed people in their minds, and they want to figure out, within the bounds of security and a Jewish democratic state, what can be accomplished.

  Hillary Clinton

  Pain, Opportunity, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.

  Georg Ebers

  Feelings, Youth, Now And Then

  4 Copy quote

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

  Paulo Freire

  Oppressors

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

• What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.

  Epictetus

  Hurt, Kindness, People

  10 Copy quote

• God says, "Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven." We don't need the Democratic Party. We don't need the Republican Party. We can get a little from both of them, but Elijah Muhammad said we need to form our own political machine.! A machine that works for the oppressed: The oppressed Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, White.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Party, Yellow, White

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.

  Colin Kaepernick

  People

  Source: ninerswire.usatoday.com

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, People, Evil

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I just think that also controlling women is a way to control the whole narrative. And so I think when you've oppressed a people for a really long time, you're terrified to give them any power because they may have some reflection of how horrible you've been and you're terrified of being treated that way. All that we want is to be our best selves, but that's hard for them to understand.

  Lizz Winstead

  Reflection, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.glamour.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source