quotations about oppression
Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
BIBLE
Isaiah 1:17
If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
MALCOLM X
speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, December 13, 1964
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.
PAULO FREIRE
Pedagogy of the Oppressed