14 Quotes About Oppressor

The term “oppressor” is used to describe leaders and other authorities who use their power to harm other people. The opposite of an oppressive person is an oppressed person. Many people take note of the negative effects of oppression, but few people realize the many ways in which individuals can be oppressed. This list of quotes will inspire you to think about the ways in which we are oppressed every day, and how we can fight for equality and freedom.

Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to...
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Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed. Sunday Adelaja
The oppressor will always despise their victims.
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The oppressor will always despise their victims. Sunday Adelaja
As a result of this greed for power, the poor...
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As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed. Sunday Adelaja
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By their hands, we succeed. By their arrogance, we prosper. They believed we would always play the game. Blocked by their certainty of our inferiority, they never imagined we would cease to collaborate in our own oppression. Nichol Bradford
Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor,...
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Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever Bangambiki Habyarimana
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People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression. Israelmore Ayivor
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True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions". They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela... Israelmore Ayivor
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The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage, paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation, but only fear and obedience, and even much sympathy with his tyranny, - is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man, only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forma, of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors. Darnell Lamont Walker
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Death takes in many people, but still lives alone. Anthony Liccione
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Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. Karl Marx
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Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism. Jorge Ramos
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The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Paulo Freire