Quotes of: Oppressed Keyword

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

Karl Marx

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

John Henrik Clarke

Saying of the Prophet Oppression When oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

Caravan of Dreams

When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.

Voice of Reason

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

Cherrie Moraga

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

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Robin Morgan

Mental Slavery remains the biggest form of oppression till this day. New insights or ideas is what shines freedom from such an oppression.

Unarine Ramaru

..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermin...

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America

If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

1984

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

P29 - the oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

Malcolm X

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and th...

Paulo Freire

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ...

Os Guinness