#oppress

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#oppression #cowardice

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#oppression #suppression #truth #courage

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#ever #help #offense #oppressed #other

He who allows oppression shares the crime. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#crime #oppression #shares #who

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt. ↗

— Hall Caine

#carries #circle #corrupt #cry #expression

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict. ↗

— Fannie Lou Hamer

#get together #got #i #inflict #inflicted

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ↗

— Carl Jung

#accept #anything #cannot #condemnation #does

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

#oppression #decisions

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#heavy #inflicted #lasting #legal #oppression

The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#establishment #islamic #islamic world #move #oppressor