Quotes of: Oppressed Keyword

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Edward Snowden

Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant problems: first, its essentialist tendency; second, its fixed _we-they_ binary position; third, i...

Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization b...

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

They oppressed us but unable to kill our spirit.

Beautiful Quotes

… Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

Paulo Freire

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

Thabo Mbeki

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

Steven Biko

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

Paulo Freire

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Carl Jung

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Carl T. Rowan

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Joseph Addison

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.

Clarice Taylor

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Herbert Spencer

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

Joe Bob Briggs

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Peter Ustinov

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

Clara Zetkin

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Bryan Cranston

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Vladimir Lenin

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

Paulo Freire