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“To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.”

Forgiving Oppression Oppressed Oppressors

Author:Umar

“The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor.”

Danger Becoming Oppression Just Being Oppressed Oppressors

Author:Jon Stewart

“The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed”

Position Catholic Oppressed Protestants Oppressors

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.”

Men Individual Chance Hell Tyranny Oppression Saving Paradise Oppressed Puppets Individual Freedom

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.”

Should Shame Ashamed Oppressed

Author:Nelson Mandela

“God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.”

Want Oppressed Oppressors

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!”

Thinking Character Action Theatre Liberation Oppressed Spectators Delegates

Author:Augusto Boal

“To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.”

Mean Jew Oppressed Oppressors

Author:Marek Edelman

“There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.”

People Giving Action Black Accepting Giving Up Conscience Injustice Oppression Worn Oppressed Segregation Black History Exhaustion Oppressors Slumber Yoke

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It's not my job to produce results. But it is my job to lay my hands on the sick, the oppressed, and to preach the Gospel.”

Hands Jobs Results Produce Sick Lays Oppressed

Author:Todd Bentley

“Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.”

World Children Grows Justice Compassion Growing Up Our Children Determine Our Relationship Oppressed Liberated

Book:God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times

Source: God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times

“Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . . I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.”

Want Heart Found Community Poor Circumstances Sick Method Medicine Heavy Ministers Hats Neighborhood Oppressed Doing Good Desolate Heavy Heart

Author:Howard Stern

“A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.”

Men Young Girl Consciousness Depends Young Man Oppressed Exertion

Book:Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes

Source: Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes

“The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.”

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Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.”

Deals Tyranny Oppressed Pardon Oppressors

Author:Saadi

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

Literature Sides Oneself Things To Do Oppressed

Author:Edwin Markham

“Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.”

Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

“Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.”

People Knows Firsts Two Feet Position Slavery Necks Oppressed Liberated

Author:Florynce Kennedy

“Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.”

Ifs Needs Spiritual Too Much Cost Stones Silent Oppression Protest Throwing Bullets Oppressed Persistent Terrific Dissatisfaction Oppressors

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.”

Mean Done Play Feelings School Students College High School Ridiculous Oppressed 80s College Students

Author:Curtis Armstrong

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