OPPRESSION QUOTES IV

quotations about oppression

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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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