Quotes about Oppressors
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
— Ecclesiastes 4:1
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
— Alveda King
The oppressed…have a higher moral right to challenge their oppressors than these have to maintain their rule by force."
— James H. Cone
Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.
— Psalm 27:11
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
— Alveda King
Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?
— Isaiah 27:7
The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
— Isaiah 14:2
Their children will be as in days of old, and their congregation will be established before Me; and I will punish all their oppressors.
— Jeremiah 30:20
It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them.
— Isaiah 19:20
Naturally, the left expects resistance. So the whole race and gender thing is aimed at torpedoing that resistance. The basic idea is to portray whites, males and heterosexuals as evil oppressors, and nonwhites, females and gender benders of all kinds as the most normal, wonderful people in the world. And if you say otherwise, or oppose this view, the left will demonize you as racist, sexist, heterosexist and a "hater." Then they will try to destroy your career and your life.
— Dinesh D'Souza
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
— Zephaniah 3:1
Let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppressors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.
— Frank Peretti