Definition of Oppressed

Oppressed Quotations

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx

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

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.
Paulo Freire

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

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Carter G. Woodson

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

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
Thomas Huxley

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Erica Jong