“ It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.3K
“ We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar. ”
- Oswald Spengler- Copy
- 684
“ Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life… ”
- Anne Lamott- Copy
- 491
“ Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The healthy man does not torture others — generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. ”
- Alan Moore- Copy
- 1.6K
“ A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 896
“ More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. ”
- Dennis Prager- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 775
“ Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
- 1K
“ Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 1.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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 Baldwin- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery. ”
- T. E. Kalem- Copy
- 365
“ The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. ”
- Steve Biko- Copy
- 560
“ 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- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Violence just hurts those who are already hurt…Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. ”
- Cesar Chavez- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity. ”
- Jane Meyerding- Copy
- 3K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I swore never to be silent whenever 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 Weisel- Copy
- 2.6K
“ A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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