Oppressed Quotes - Page 21

• I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

  Tony Campolo

  Commitment, Cities, Special

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• I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

  Tony Campolo

  Commitment, America, Growing

  "An Open Letter to Evangelicals" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2006.

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• To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

  Edwin Markham

  Literature, Sides, Things To Do

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• We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.

  Che Guevara

  Freedom, Struggle, Responsibility

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• An oppressed people will always rise.

  Henning Mankell

  People

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• If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

  Michael K. Williams

  Wire, Levels, Felt

  "All in the Game". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2011.

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• My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

  Pancho Villa

  Giving Up, Real, Ambition

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• The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

  Kim Il-sung

  Struggle, Simple, Evil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  Barbara Smith

  Color, White, People

  "Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism".

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• Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Ideas, Atheism, Watches

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• In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Baby, Women, Humanity

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• But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

  Jose Marti

  Greed, Soul, Sun

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• I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, People, Oppression

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• From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.

  Eric Liu

  Baby, Anchors, Silence

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• There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for the perfect city and the perfect government in the perfect country with perfect people, just wait a little while longer - it's coming

  David Berg

  Country, Government, Justice For All

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• In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

  Imran Khan

  Country, Moving, People

  "The path of Khan" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

  Rose Kennedy

  United States, Oppression, Consent

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• Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Keys, Defense, World

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• I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.

  Lee Maracle

  Art, Thinking, People

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• When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Men, Thinking, Feminist

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

  Saadi

  Pardon, Tyranny, Deals

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• When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization one will find that He who resides in one's heart, resides in the hearts of others as well - the oppressed, the persecuted, the untouchable, and the outcast.

  Sarada Devi

  God, Spiritual, Heart

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• I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Men, Class

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.168, Open Road Media

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• I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

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• The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Imagination, Together, World

  Immanuel Wallerstein (2011). “The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century, With a New Prologue”, p.357, Univ of California Press

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