“Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.”
Albert Camus
“For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.”
Bible
“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
Charles Patterson
“Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.”
Emile M. Cioran
“No man is to lower himself by showing tolerance towards any sort of heretic, least of all a Calvinist”
Cardinal Caraffa
“Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?”
Nadine Gordimer
“I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.”
Martin Luther
