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“No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?”
Paulo Freire“No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?”
Paulo Freire“Don't oppress, don't accept to be oppressed and you will live free.”
Auliq Ice“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, Pedagogy of the Oppressed“When people have been oppressed for so long”
they become immune to it.They sometimes see oppression as the alternative means to oppressed others.“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.”
Malcolm X“P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.”
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed“Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.”
Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance“..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.”
bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center“Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed”
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed