Oppressors Quotations

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

Our parents are our first oppressors.

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

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

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

The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.