OPPRESSION QUOTES IV

quotations about oppression

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

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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

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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