I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.
I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.
If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is not only acceptable but wonderful for Americans to be concerned, outraged, and active.
Do well to impress; don't depress, suppress or oppress anyone. Inspire a soul; never despise!
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.
If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them.
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.
The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.
P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into dialogue.
P53-knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless,impatient,continuing,hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others.
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.
He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.
