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The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.

The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.
– AR Bernard

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  2. When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  3. Ignorance is the supreme oppressor. – Bryant McGill
  4. Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness. – Shankara
  6. It is a mere needless thing to fight with ignorance with all your true strength except you can educate and change ignorance with wit and wisdom – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  7. If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. – Desmond Tutu
  8. Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. – Derrick A Bell
  9. …the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179) – Mev Puleo
  10. Don’t be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  11. Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. – James Russell Lowell
  12. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silent encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. – Elie Wiesel
  13. The fire of revival that destroys all principalities and powers also defeats and demolishes the oppressor -“ the devil – Sunday Adelaja
  14. When people don’t understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as though they’re still oppressed. – Gugu Mona
  15. The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves… – Paulo Freire
  16. When people don’t understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as if they’re still oppressed. – Gift Gugu Mona
  17. 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
  18. They oppressed us but unable to kill our spirit. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  19. The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. – Ernest Becker
  20. Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  21. If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy. – Ignatius of Loyola
  22. No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy. – Martin Luther King Jr
  23. I am for the largest liberty for the poor man — for the oppressed. – Lewis Tappan
  24. Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country? – Ambeth R Ocampo
  25. Saying of the ProphetHelping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not. – Idries Shah
  26. Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not. – Idries Shah
  27. Don’t oppress, don’t accept to be oppressed and you will live free. – Auliq Ice
  28. He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. – Isabel Allende
  29. Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed. – Jonny Steinberg
  30. Saying something is ‘politically correct’ is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed. – DaShanne Stokes
  31. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? – Paolo Freire
  32. But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed. – Henry Van Dyke
  33. Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength. – Abhijit Naskar
  34. It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people’s cruelty bounce right off of you. – April Genevieve Tucholke
  35. Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. – Carl Sagan
  36. ignorance to a certain degree can be corrected but, it shall always be an effort in futility to correct a certain degree of ignorance! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  37. Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  38. This is the eternal challenge with ignorance -” ignorance can’t see itself. – Bryant McGill
  39. IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE – Charleston Parker
  40. We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance. – Rajesh Nanoo

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