I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.

Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.

I do not like the way oppressed Filipinos are being treated now. They are oppressed and have no one to turn to.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

There's a lot of oppressed people in Tottenham, but people in Tottenham also know how to turn pain into triumph.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

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

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.

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.

I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

We're oppressed, I think, you know there's only 5 per cent of the world's population who are ginger? So it's a tough time for us gingers.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

I'm not Cuban and therefore don't have any family members who were oppressed by Castro's regime. But I do have a number of friends whose families were.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.

What this man did, Fidel Castro, is he oppressed his people for nearly six decades. That legacy is firing squads. It's poverty. It's denying human rights.

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Oxfam is part of a global movement for social justice. We mainly work to fight for economic and social rights for people without a voice or people who are oppressed.

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

I'm trying to make people understand: yes, women are oppressed in 'The Handmaid's Tale.' But the men are also oppressed, too. It's just a very scary world for anyone.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

The difference between the Chinese workers and foreign workers lies in the fact that the latter are oppressed only by their own capitalists and not by those of other countries.

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.

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