Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral."
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Oppressed
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Bell Hooks
Author, Feminist, Social Activist
"The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged."
Paulo Freire
Educator, Author
"It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors"
Josh Bernstein
Author, Filmmaker
"The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them."
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"Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed."
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"The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'"
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"God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing."
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"God is on the side of the oppressed."
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"I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed."
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"I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them."
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"All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them."
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"I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is."
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"Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants."
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