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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. -- Anne Lamott
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. -- James Russell Lowell
Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society. -- Paulo Freire
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. -- Albert Camus
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. -- Steven Biko
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. -- Emile M. Cioran
The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. -- James Russell Lowell
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. -- Paulo Freire
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. -- Elie Wiesel
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty. -- George Jackson
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration. -- Paulo Freire
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. -- Andrea Dworkin
It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer. -- Yehuda Berg
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. -- James A. Baldwin
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside. -- Evgeny Morozov
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. -- Desmond Tutu
What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system. -- Hugh Masekela
Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims. -- Amos Oz
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves. -- Kavita Ramdas
Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople. -- Jonathan Haidt
Reality, the oppressor's tongue. -- Adrienne Rich
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. -- Elie Wiesel
To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed. -- Umar
The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor. -- A. R. Bernard
To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed. -- Saadi
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. -- Wally Lamb
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed." -- Wally Lamb
Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed. -- Elie Wiesel
To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor. -- Jane Elliott
Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor. Picard -- Gene Roddenberry
But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed. -- Nikki Giovanni
REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor. -- Rick Bayan
Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force. -- Mary Brave Bird
The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor, -- Jon Stewart
Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. -- Ogden Nash
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor. -- Saadi
But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity. -- Cherrie Moraga
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. -- Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. -- Paulo Freire
Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor. -- Voltaire
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. -- Barbara Deming
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. -- Desmond Tutu
The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong. -- Carter G. Woodson
You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed. -- Ali Meshkini
Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed! -- Alexander Pope
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. -- Nelson Mandela
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. -- Elie Wiesel
If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor. -- Ibn Hazm
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor. -- Paulo Freire
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. -- Cesar Chavez
God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart. -- Louis de Bernieres
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others. -- bell hooks
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. -- Derrick Bell
For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor. -- Walter Rodney
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
...the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179) -- Mev Puleo
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral. -- Desmond Tutu
Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery. -- Bill Vaughan
Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic. -- Albert Camus
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life. -- Anne Lamott
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. -- Nelson Mandela
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God. -- Cesar Chavez
Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor? -- Charles Lenox Remond
Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers. -- Che Guevara
A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses them against herself. -- Sidney Abbott
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor. -- Florence King
We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor. -- Gloria Steinem
The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done. -- Bobby Seale
Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber. -- Samuel Johnson
Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister. -- Marianne Moore
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. -- Malcolm X
The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us. -- Audre Lorde
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful . -- Thomas A. Edison
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed. -- James Russell Lowell
The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam. -- Frank Herbert
Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor's rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all those who trample under foot the glorious Constitution and the people's rights. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. -- Elie Wiesel
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naivetÃ© or selfishness, will be eternally disgraced and will burn in the fury of the Islamic nations. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation. -- Phil Cousineau
The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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