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
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
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