Oppressor Quotes

Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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The oppressor will always despise their victims.

~ Sunday Adelaja

As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.

~ Sunday Adelaja

By their hands, we succeed. By their arrogance, we prosper. They believed we would always play the game. Blocked by their certainty of our inferiority, they never imagined we would cease to collaborate in our own oppression.

~ Nichol Bradford

Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions. They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

...the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)

~ Mev Puleo

The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage, paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation, but only fear and obedience, and even much sympathy with his tyranny, - is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man, only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forma, of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Death takes in many people, but still lives alone.

~ Anthony Liccione

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

~ Karl Marx

Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.

~ Jorge Ramos

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

~ Paulo Freire

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