6 Scriptures on Helping the Oppressed

Proverbs 22:22-23 (ESV)

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.

Isaiah 1:17  (ESV)

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.

Isaiah 58:6 (ESV)

Is this not the fast that I chose: to loose bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?…”

Isaiah 61:1 (ESV)

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound

Jeremiah 22:3 (ESV)

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Luke 4:18-19 (ESV)

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

“In the end what hurt the most was not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” 
~ Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King