OPPRESSION QUOTES IV

quotations about oppression

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

DESMOND TUTU

attributed, Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes


We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

LYDIA MARIA CHILD

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

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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