Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor. This imposition, in turn, may be made upon the oppressed population which is allowed to remain or upon the territory alone, after removal of the population and the colonization by the oppressor's own nationals.
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.
To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.
Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law. . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them. '
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.
Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.