#oppressor

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

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#appreciate #chosen #elephant #foot #injustice

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#continue #dictators #fear #here #i

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#beings #encourages #endure #helps #human

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#helps #must #neutrality #never #oppressor

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#always #arms #oppressor #rarely #rebels

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#perfectionism #voice

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#every #every man #form #gives #government

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#apostle #common #down #here #inspired

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#freedom #given #must #never #oppressed