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Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold. -- Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison
Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed. -- Walter Wink
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end. -- Joan D. Chittister
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. -- Maximilien Robespierre
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. -- Lech Walesa
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. -- Jonathan Mayhew
As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other. -- Alan Moore
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. -- Georg Buchner
I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed. -- Julian Fellowes
There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women. -- Susan Powter
Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV. -- Warren Farrell
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. -- Alveda King
We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line. -- Warren Farrell
When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us. -- Keith Stanfield
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. -- Abraham Lincoln
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
Our parents are our first oppressors. -- Jerry Rubin
Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world! -- Richard Price
The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.' -- Paulo Freire
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. -- Paulo Freire
Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors -- Nelson Mandela
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. -- Maximilien Robespierre
It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. -- Paulo Freire
The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate. -- Eric Hoffer
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors. -- Marek Edelman
Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts. -- Jean-Paul Marat
Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. -- Darnell Lamont Walker
Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers. -- Max Anders
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. -- Paulo Freire
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing. -- Desmond Tutu
Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors. -- Ameen Rihani
The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed. -- Paulo Freire
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. -- Paulo Freire
It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors. -- Eric Hoffer
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. -- Paulo Freire
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; -- Paulo Freire
Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble. -- William Lloyd Garrison
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus. -- Richard Pryor
Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds. -- Mahatma Gandhi
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. -- Gene Sharp
Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors. -- Jerry Rubin
We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed. -- Remi Kanazi
I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God. -- Jose Rizal
The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors. -- Martin Delany
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors. -- Miriam Makeba
P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it. -- Paulo Freire
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have. -- Andrew Vachss
God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul. -- William Ralph Inge
My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself. The oppressors are no longer really human, whatever uniform they wear. -- Hajo Meyer
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground. -- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex. -- Camille Paglia
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 -- Paulo Freire
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. -- Bertrand Russell
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors. -- Peter Benchley
Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . . -- Martin Delany
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. -- George W. Bush
For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice. -- Frei Betto
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies-hunger, misery, and despair. -- Harry S. Truman
Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims. -- Alessandro Manzoni
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt. -- Paulo Freire

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