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You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

Desmond Tutu
Sides, Oppressed, Oppressors
"Desmond Tutu is one of a rare breed" by Cath Elliott, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Bell Hooks
Rage, Oppressed, Privileged

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

Paulo Freire
Information, Cognition, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed
Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

Paulo Freire
Oppressed, Oppressors
Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.

A. R. Bernard
Ignorance, Oppressed, Oppressors

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

Paulo Freire
Dehumanization, Liberation, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed
Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.

Umar
Forgiving, Oppression, Oppressed

I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.

Colin Kaepernick
People, Oppressed
Source: ninerswire.usatoday.com

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

Nelson Mandela
Tasks, Oppressed, Oppressors

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Alexander Pope
Attitude, Blessed, Oppressed

Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed.

Ignacio Ellacuria
Remember, Conversion, Oppressed

An oppressed people will always rise.

Henning Mankell
People, Oppressed

The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them.

Josh Bernstein
Republican, Oppressed

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

Lorraine Hansberry
Groups, Oppressed

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

Paulo Freire
Guidelines, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, Adopted
Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

Paulo Freire
Strive, Liberation, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed
Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

David Graeber
Alliances, Revolutionary, Oppressed

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

Paulo Freire
Men, Banking, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed
"Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Book by Paulo Freire, Chapter 2, 1968.

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.

Marek Edelman
Mean, Jew, Oppressed

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

Elie Wiesel
Neutrality, Sides, Oppressed

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Paulo Freire
Suffering, Sickness, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed
Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

Paulo Freire
People, Treats, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed
Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

Paulo Freire
Models, Oppressed, Oppressors
Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

Nikki Giovanni
Oppressed, Oppressors, Nonviolence
Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

Nelson Mandela
Long Walk To Freedom, Wells, Oppressed
Twitter post from Jul 25, 2016

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