OPPRESSION QUOTES IV

quotations about oppression

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.

EUGENE V. DEBS

anti-war speech, June 16, 1918

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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