Best victim & oppressors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.”

Victim Absurd Survivor Oppressors Pimp Arresting

Author:Gloria Steinem

“People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”

People Seems Life Is Turns Wish Victim Competition Criminals Oppressed Oppressors

Book:The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970

Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970

“To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!”

Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child

“I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.”

Men Today Form Realizing Views Roles Successful Students Lucky Models Female Victim Meetings Absence Ideology Professors Role Models Rebel Oppressors Seductive

Author:Camille Paglia

“It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“When someone hurts you or harms you, even if it is a deep wound, forgive them. Forgive them NOT for their sake, but as a sign of gratitude to Allah. Why you ask? For making you the victim and not the oppressor. There is no crime in being a victim, rather it brings you closer to Allah and rids you of sins. But as for the oppressor, they'll have to face their Lord one day. So in reality, they are their own greatest victims.”

Ifs Reality Faces Asks Hurt Sin Lord Crime Gratitude One Day Victim Forgiving Sake Harm Wounds Muslim Oppressors Deep Wounds

Author:Suhaib Webb

“Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.”

Sex Fantasy Cutting Feminism Objects Female Victim Males Contemporary Dominant Oppressors Paranoid Spun

Author:Camille Paglia

“It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman explains eloquently in her masterwork Trauma and Recovery, “neutrality” actually serves the interests of the perpetrator much more than those of the victim and so is not neutral. Although an abuser prefers to have you wholeheartedly on his side, he will settle contentedly for your decision to take a middle stance. To him, that means you see the couple's problems as partly her fault and partly his fault, which means it isn't abuse.”

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation.”

Pain Moving Healing Compassion Journey Victim Relief Reconciliation Atonement Oppressors Amends

Author:Phil Cousineau

“...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured--today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.”

Today Past Victim Injustice Jew Excuse Despite Oppression Palestinian Oppressors Powerlessness

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.”

Sometimes Compassion Concern Victim Forgotten Murderer Oppressors

Author:Max Anders

“You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.”

Should Humans Persons Feelings Desire Powerful Flower Victim Instinct Crush Oppressed Despised Oppressors Persecuted Frailty Flower Life

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.”

Humans Faces Lying Horror Racism Conscience Victim Injustice Commit Prisoner Oppressors Facing The Truth Sears Human Equality

Author:Alveda King

“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.”

Looks Children Two Past Parent Cases Conflict Victim Jew Oppressors

Author:Amos Oz

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.”

Humans Long Running Turns Culture Victim Desperate Long Runs Human History Turn-on Oppressors Tainted

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.”

Thinking Way Firsts Ends Remember Capacity Victim Wounds Liberation Rescue Domination Oppressors

Book:Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.”

Science Found Boys Hatred Accounts Victim Revenge Tyranny Minorities Midst Territory Refuge Lacking Athletic Oppressors Prowess Physical Strength

Author:Freeman Dyson

“Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.”

Men Heart Rights Violence Crime Victim Corruption Guilty Bully Oppressors

Book:The Betrothed

Source: The Betrothed

“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.”

Pain Hurt Silence Victim Cruelty Witness Oppressors Essayists Bystanders

Author:Elie Wiesel

“No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.”

Written Victim Villain Oppressed Sharks Oppressors

Book:Ocean planet: writings and images of the sea

Source: Ocean planet: writings and images of the sea

“Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”

“Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.”

“Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.”

Source: Autobiography

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