Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Nikki Giovanni

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

Common

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

Paulo Freire

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

Clare Boothe Luce

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

Robert Dale Owen

How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!