Oppressed Quotes - Page 17

• I want my children - I want Malia and Sasha - to understand that they've got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves have done. That they have a responsibility to the larger community and the larger nation, that they should be sensitive to and extra thoughtful about the plight of people who have been oppressed in the past, are oppressed currently.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Responsibility, Thoughtful

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Would Be, Natural Instinct

  "Saturday interview: Aung San Suu Kyi". Interview with Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2011.

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• The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Diversity, Doe, Needs

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.11, Book Tree

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• It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  True Friend, Sacrifice, Rights

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• I just think that also controlling women is a way to control the whole narrative. And so I think when you've oppressed a people for a really long time, you're terrified to give them any power because they may have some reflection of how horrible you've been and you're terrified of being treated that way. All that we want is to be our best selves, but that's hard for them to understand.

  Lizz Winstead

  Reflection, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

  Paulo Freire

  Freedom, Historical, Tasks

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody. That is MLK, that is Dolores Huerta, that is Fannie Lou Hamer, that is Ella Jo Baker, that is Nelson Mandela. You walk down the line.

  Van Jones

  Reality, People, Lines

  Source: pen.org

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• Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Men, Self

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Men, Order

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• Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

  Tony Campolo

  Biblical, Issues, Sick

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• I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our innocence is one of the most important acts of self-liberation and de-colonization. Not letting the requirement that we adapt to impossible circumstances and unconscionable crimes leave us shackled to the kind of cynicism and armor such that we can't breathe and laugh and magnetize to ourselves all the genius and love and support that we need to transform the situation. That's probably the biggest challenge, is to recover our innocence.

  Van Jones

  Thinking, Laughing, Support

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food. So I wanted to create a sitcom and have some really quirky characters, because most of the stuff they make now is just so marginalized. How interesting is a white guy who's 28 years old and lives in New York? What story have we not seen about a character like that? Just as a writer, it's so much easier to come up with comedy when you have a really oppressed Indian boy. Or a mother who is an addict but still has to take care of her kids.

  Felicia Day

  Mother, Character, Kids

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, tv.avclub.com. November 6, 2008.

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• Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately, to maintain your sense of specialness and difference? And how do you express that? Does it just become a kind of kitsch? You can say this of gay people, but it's true for Jewish people, Italian Americans, everyone who deals with it. It's a question of assimilation. How can you be assimilated and special at the same time?

  Daniel Mendelsohn

  Gay, Italian, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

  David

  Justice, Soul, Desire

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• Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

  Germaine Greer

  Peace, Diversity, Culture

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim they don't do politics but if you listen to their statements in the Middle East or in other conferences, they support corrupt regimes and despots, such as as-Sissi.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Support, Middle East, Sides

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• There must be a very clear understanding that you cannot work for peace if you are not ready to struggle. And this is the very meaning of jihad: to manage your intention to get your inner peace when it comes to the spiritual journey. In our society, that means face injustice and hypocrisy, face the dictators, the exploiters, the oppressors if you want to free the oppressed, if you want peace based on justice.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Struggle, Mean

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that there are a great number of advantages here for too American worker.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Numbers, Plant

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, People, Evil

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.

  Colin Kaepernick

  People

  Source: ninerswire.usatoday.com

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• God says, "Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven." We don't need the Democratic Party. We don't need the Republican Party. We can get a little from both of them, but Elijah Muhammad said we need to form our own political machine.! A machine that works for the oppressed: The oppressed Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, White.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Party, Yellow, White

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

  John Lennon

  Not Sure, Realising

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

  Eric Hoffer

  Shapes, Hated, Oppressors

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.

  Denzel Washington

  Black, Directors, Dollars

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• Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

  Saint Augustine

  Evil, Lazy, Taught

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