An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

- Henry Clay

I do not like the way oppressed Filipinos are being treated now. They are oppressed and have no one to turn to.

- Rodrigo Duterte

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

- Paulo Freire

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

- Paulo Freire

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

- Michael K. Williams

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

- Malcolm X

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

- Malcolm X

Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.

- Lionel Sosa

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

- Alexander Pope

An oppressed people will always rise.

- Henning Mankell

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

- Elizabeth Missing Sewell

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

- Edwin Markham

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

- Erica Jong

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

- Clara Zetkin

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

- Colin Kaepernick

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

- Clarence Darrow

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

- Clare Boothe Luce

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

- Charles Baudelaire