Quelques citations sur les victimes opprimées, l'oppression, les oppresseurs:
"Certaines dictatures parmi les plus féroces ont pris prétexte, pour s'installer, d'une révolte tout à fait légitime contre l'oppression. Malheureusement, les opprimés sont des oppresseurs en devenir, et il en sera toujours ainsi tant que chaque individu n'aura pas éradiqué en lui-même les germes de l'oppression." (Pierre Rabhi)
"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them." (Emily Brontë)
"Un combattant de la liberté apprend de façon brutale que c'est l'oppresseur qui définit la nature de la lutte, et il ne reste souvent à l'opprimé d'autre recours que d'utiliser les méthodes qui reflètent celles de l'oppresseur." (Nelson Mandela)
"Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways." (Salomon, 10ème siècle avant JC)
"The poor were wise, who, by the rich oppressed, Withdrew, and sought a secret place of rest." (Juvénal)
"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man." (Tacitus)
"Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow." (Bible)
"On doit se ranger du côté des opprimés en toute circonstance, même quand ils ont tort, sans pourtant perdre de vue qu'ils sont pétris de la même boue que leurs oppresseurs." (Emil Michel Cioran)
"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" (George Orwell)
"La folie est souvent la logique d'un esprit juste que l'on opprime." (Oliver Wendell-Holmes)
"If thou stand guilty of oppression, or wrongfully possessed of another's right, see thou make restitution before thou givest an alms; if otherwise, what art thou but a thief?" (Francis Quarles, 1592-1644)
"Entre le fort et le faible, entre le riche et le pauvre, entre le maître et le serviteur, c'est la liberté qui opprime et la loi qui affranchit." (Henri Lacordaire)
"Oppression causeth rebellion." (Térence)
"Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong." (Gerry Spence, né en 1929)
"It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves." (Samuel Adams, 1722-1803)
"Assiste ton frère, qu'il soit oppresseur ou opprimé. S'il est oppresseur, empêche son oppression et de cette façon tu l'assisteras." (Mahomet)
"Aider le fou, c’est oppresser le juste." (Hazrat Ali, né en 599)
"To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!" (Chinua Achebe, 1930-2013)
"C'est peut-être la plus grande consolation des opprimés que de se croire supérieurs à leurs tyrans." (Julien Green, 1900-98)
"Il est dans la nature de l'homme d'opprimer ceux qui cèdent et de respecter ceux qui résistent." (Thucydide)
"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back." (Léon Tolstoï)
"Les opprimés en révolte n'ont jamais réussi à fonder une société non oppressive." (Simone Weil)
"L'oppresseur ne se rend pas compte du mal qu'implique l'oppression tant que l'opprimé l'accepte." (Henry David Thoreau)
"Une même loi pour le lion et pour le bœuf, c'est l'oppression." (William Blake)
"Hitherto, every form of society has been based on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes." / "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)
"Si nous baissons les bras, nous sommes complaisants envers les mauvais traitements, ce qui les rend encore plus oppressifs." (Rosa Parks)
"Le silence est la meilleure façon de maintenir en place un ordre lié à l'oppression. Les gens qui n'ont pas accès à la parole sont les opprimés. C'est pour ça que c'est crucial de parler!" (Adèle Haenel)
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La tyrannie est citée ici:
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Le pouvoir est cité ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/310722/le-gouvernement-le-pouvoir
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