“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”
Source: I Know This Much Is True
“The oppressors, who oppress, exploit, and rape by virtue of their power, cannot find in this power the strength to liberate either the oppressed or themselves.”
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 1, on the oppressors
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“The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.”
Paulo Freire
(1921–1997) educator and philosopher
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
(1935–2010) Lebanese faqih
The Quran calls on the weak and oppressed to gain strength http://english.bayynat.org/TheHolyQuran/Quran_QuranCalls.htm
Eric Hoffer
(1898–1983) American philosopher
Quoted in War and Conflict Quotations: A Worldwide Dictionary of Pronouncements from Military Leaders, Politicians, Philosophers, Writers and Others (1997) by Michael C. Thomsett and Jean F. Thomsett
Paraphrased variant: "I doubt if the oppressed ever fight for freedom..."
Context: It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power — power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
Allan Boesak
(1946) South African anti-apartheid activist
Source: Comfort and Protest (1987), pp. 65-66
“Oppression is the essence of power.”
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
(1903–1946) Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany executed for war crimes
To Heinrich Himmler. Quoted in "The Rand McNally Encyclopedia of World War II" - by John Keegan, Sydney L. Mayer - History - 1977 - Page 137