Oppressor Quotes

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
History You Injustice Will Neutrality Oppressor Side Say Tail Neutral Foot Mouse Situations Your Chosen Elephant Appreciate
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel
Silence Neutrality Oppressor Victim Sides Tormented Must Take Never Encourages Helps
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko
Mind Oppressor Weapon Potent Most Oppressed
If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters. Steven Biko
Heart Mind Will Free Oppressor Nothing Scare Powerful Masters His Oppressed Man-Made Controlled Manipulated Then Chains Bind Servitude
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
Reality Genius Rebellion Oppressor Other System Obscure Make Isolate Condition Any Common Dynamics Which Against Each Found United Inconceivable Slave Slaves
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. Anne Lamott
Oppressor Voice Perfectionism
Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims. Amos Oz
Conflict Past Oppressor Other Arab See Case Parent Cruel Between Look Another Very Same Children Victims Much Each Image Jew Two
You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew. Fred Hampton
Education You People Build Oppressor Revolution He Became Because Educated Were Did Africa Much
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty. George Jackson
Passion Men Oppressor Few Crimes Guilty Economic Feel Very Imprisoned Few Men Against Really Even
The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension. Steven Biko
Happiness Oppressor State Liberation Only Sees Never Tension Also His Exist Oppressed Truly Task Revolutionary
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
You Yourself World Long Oppressor Enough Know Because Does Effectively Begin
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves. Kavita Ramdas
Class Struggle Women Feminism Oppressor Every Too Other Assumptions Unlike Distinct Ruling Ruling Class Ourselves Almost Often Movement Hold Against Social Far Held Beliefs Deeply Set
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration. Paulo Freire
Life Experience Oppressor Way Point Sharing Feel Toward Attraction Becomes Overpowering His His Way Oppressed Existential Irresistible Certain Aspiration Certain Point
It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer. Yehuda Berg
Fight Oppressor Own Enough Our Says Foes Worthy Small Voice Small Voice Powerful Within Limited Real Beliefs Conquer Need
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. Emil Cioran
Oppressor Rarely Rises Almost Arms Always Turned Who Rebels Slave
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. James Russell Lowell
Government Democracy Man Oppressor Own Every Gives His Form Right Every Man
I was raised a black child in the South, where you're indoctrinated into a religion that an oppressor gave you. Killer Mike
Religion You Black Oppressor Gave South Child Where Raised
Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society. Paulo Freire
Oppressor Revolution Society Born Entity Within Social

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