#oppress

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. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#city #commitment #committed #doing #eastern

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#ask #because #cannot #educate #educated

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#perfectionism #voice

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#oppression

There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#poetry #oppression

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars--a cage, so peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#oppression

...oppression is as American as apple pie... ↗

— Audre Lorde

#oppression

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#oppression #defeat

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#minority #oppression #race-relations #responsibility #sexual-orientation

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#blood #count #eyes #gang #lend