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A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

—Andrea Dworkin

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I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called ‘helping’ them.

—Agnostic Zetetic

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My heart isn’t big enough to care for the oppressors.

—Darnell Lamont

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They [feminists] share the instinct for tyranny and destruction – and they are filled with self-loathing. In the end, leftist feminists yearn to submit to, and submerge themselves within, a despotic monolith. Because they despise...

—Jamie Glazov

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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

—Ernest Hemingway

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[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our...

—Leon Trotsky

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Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you’re oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That’s why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty...

—Nenia Campbell

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Pone does not liberate people by alienating them. Pconsciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.

—Paulo Freire

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ABYSSOur country livesAmong the deadAnd dies among the livingSometimes.

—Visar Zhiti

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As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

—Antonia Fraser

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If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.

—Christopher Bram

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Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.”(Almansor)

—Heinrich Heine

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Women in America read ‘lifestyle’ pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it....

—Erica Jong

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When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character....

—Karl Marx

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it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

—Max Weber

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Every Muslim is obligated by the Holy Quran to defend his fellow Muslims who are victims of oppression and injustice.Do your effort to help wherever you are and whatever you can do.The Holy Quran decrees...

—Princess Maleiha

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Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to...

—Theodore Kaczynski

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Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or...

—Steven Erikson

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When you have a hammer in your hand, everything around you starts looking like a nail.

—Auliq Ice

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Nos instruyen y preparan en la juventud para una profesión, para cumplir los deberes ciudadanos, para el servicio militar, nos enseñaban las reglas del aseo, a comportarnos bien y hasta a comprender lo bello (esto...

—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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When opposition presses (OPPRESSION) one has to persevere, press, push back but never allow yourself to be pressed like a grape unless the juice is your victory wine.

—Eveth Colley

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. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption,...

—Jeremy Bentham

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When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth – they start to reject oppression.

—Maria Alyokhina

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Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups that arrest the voice of truth or destroy others, then we are Judas.

—Megan McKenna

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Hennes självbedrägeri ljög fram en vrångbild, som i mycket liknade lyckan.

—Victoria Benedictsson

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God’s Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God’s people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are...

—Ronald J.

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The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the...

—Andrea Dworkin

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The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. ‘God had made us master organizers of...

—Catherine Keller

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You can’t forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.

—Darnell Lamont

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119When you bring together the national security state and the military-industrial complex, when you bring together the prison-industrial complex and all the profits that flow from it, when you bring together the corporate media multiplex...

—Cornel West

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If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are...

—Lysander Spooner

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One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards

—Oche Otorkpa

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In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!

—Mehmet Murat

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P15 – Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system to the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged...

—Paulo Freire

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We stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it were written in letters of fire, what ending a girl may expect if...

—Philippa Gregory

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When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.

—Bryant McGill

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Histories are instruments of oppression.

—Catherynne M.

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Oppression
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In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech,...

—Eugene V.

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I am against all kinds of oppression. Poverty, Sexism, racism, terrorism, classicism, imperialism, heterosexism, Cisgenderism, colorism, Ableism, and Nativism. Because it hinder human progression.

—Henry Johnson Jr.

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May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the...

—Joseph Warren

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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

—John Locke

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But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool, soaked through with the sweet chloroform of utter sadness. – Ward 9

—Will Self

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…the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn’t the courage to express

—Wilhelm Reich

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For every King is right in his own eyes and rests the blame to whoever he wishes to carry it.

—Auliq Ice

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In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it, that blacks are inherently inferior to whites or that homosexuals are all, by...

—Andrew Tobias

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If that’s the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake,” Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, “I’m all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

—Frederick Douglass

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Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil...

—Howard Zinn

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