Top 25 Oppressed Quotes of 29 - Page 2

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

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

Margaret Atwood

Boring, Oppressed, Nationalism

Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

God is on the side of the oppressed.

Desmond Tutu

Sides, Oppressed

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

Desmond Tutu

Want, Oppressed, Oppressors

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Weight, Felt, Oppressed

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1815). “The Sorrows of Werter: A Pathetic Story”, p.29

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

Voltaire

War, Philosopher, Oppressed

Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1604, e-artnow

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

Julien Green

Tyrants, Consolation, 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.

John Lennon

Not Sure, Realising, Oppressed

Source: www.counterpunch.org

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

Eric Hoffer

Want, Oppressed, Oppressors

"War and Conflict Quotations: A Worldwide Dictionary". Book by Jean Freestone Thomsett and Michael Thomsett, 1997.