654 Quotes About Oppression

Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violence. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.

Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only master of all is the Creator, and he created all men to be free. Freedom is a God-given right, not a human-granted gift. No man should have to fight to breathe in good health and peace.

Who are the real enemies of freedom? The people who want everyone to think, feel and act like them.

Only the oppressed can receive liberating visions in wretched places. Only those thinking emerges in the context of the struggle against injustice can see God's freedom breaking into unfree conditions and thus granting power to the powerless to fight here and now for the freedom they know to be theirs in Jesus' cross and resurrection.

I don't have a problem w/ people not knowing about oppression & social issues. I DO have a problem w/ people standing their ground in ignorance. Viciously, even violently, protecting that ignorance from the light of truth. I do have a problem with that.

Where dwelt fear, there could be no shred of freedom.

Deliverance is not the same as freedom. Deliverance is release from the oppressor, but freedom is deliverance from oppression.

A society that begins by banning words will end by banning books, and ideas themselves.

Lord, you seek pleasure in us as we seek to find pleasure in you instead of pleasure seeking in this world, we pleasure in Truth. Certified bondage at birth, it's Lazarus scenario of thirst. The rich in power ignoring the cries of the poor, oppressed in poverty but the tables will soon turn and it will be the rich man what'll cry out to me.