To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.