quotations about oppression
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
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
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