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• I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

  Assata Shakur

  Determination, Believe, Self

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• Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an oppressed minority. This is such a lie. American women are the most fortunate class of people who ever lived on the face of the earth.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Lying, Men, Class

  Source: rutherford.org

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• Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed at men they came in contact with, because it had been pent up too long - women now come from a new position of easier, more comfortable self-affirmation and empowerment. Women are given to tolerance and are more able to love. I hope it happens also to men.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Law, Self

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• All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because the nation's identity is not secure. The nation doesn't provide the third world writer with a secure identity, because the nation is colonized, it's oppressed, it's part of somebody else's empire.

  Mark McMorris

  Insecure, Identity, Empires

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in that way for long. That is why the gospel that has been used by the oppressors is the same gospel that liberated the oppressed: They were reading the same book. Something in the DNA of Christian faith and in the Bible agitates against that kind of misuse.

  Allan Boesak

  Christian, Believe, Book

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

  W. Kamau Bell

  People, Black, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical.

  Carl Sagan

  Art, Thinking, Political

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.398, Ballantine Books

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• Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!"

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Sleep, Hands, Support

  Last speech to the National Convention, www.bartleby.com. July 26, 1794.

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• No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.

  Warren Farrell

  Home, Sleep, Wife

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic desire.

  Gerald Stern

  Crazy, Justice, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those which - who - are.

  Gerald Stern

  Envy, Culture, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'.

  Warren Farrell

  Class, Luxury, Parent

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An African American in a white world. A Jew in a Christian world. A gypsy. A Native American. A Chinese American. Let's say, you were born deprived.

  Gerald Stern

  Christian, Wall, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Utopians don't say, 'The world's corrupt, women make less money, people of color are oppressed at every turn.' You don't list the problems of the world; you describe a world in which those things aren't the case. The critique is implicit and as a result it's kind of a positive critique. You're not listing what's bad, but rather what would be good - you're oriented toward this positive vision.

  Christine Jennings

  Color, People, Vision

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Struggle, Thinking, Desire

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Class, Would Be

  "On the Opposition" by J. V. Stalin, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1974.

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• I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

  Andrew Solomon

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I will continue - as Labour Leader - to pursue the causes of peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, the wider Middle East and all over the world. But those who claim to do so with hateful or inflammatory language do no service to anyone, especially dispossessed and oppressed people in need of better advocacy.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Israel, People, Justice

  "Jeremy Corbyn antisemitism speech in full: Labour leader vows to stamp out 'hateful language or debate' The Labour leader welcomed a response recommending immediate action for the Labour" by Lizzie Dearden, www.independent.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of a democratic, federal and pluralistic state, where generations of oppressed Iraqis will regain their dignity, freedom and the right to join the civilized and progressive nations of the world.

  Jalal Talabani

  Country, Iraq, Promise

  "Keep U.S., British forces in Iraq, says Talabani". The Toronto Star, September 23, 2006.

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• There's a few scholars that object to how the italicized sections suggest that Native people are to take some part in the blame for how colonization occurred. But I say, "Yes they are." Not nearly as much blame as the colonizers, of course. But we are not just victims. I hate this idea that we are all just victimized and oppressed and etcetera etcetera. It's dehumanizing in its own way.

  Joseph Boyden

  Hate, Ideas, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If the Democrats have their way, African Americans will continue to feel oppressed, despised and handicapped into the indefinite future. All progress will be downplayed and every setback amplified. In this way, Democrats can continue to rely on lopsided black support at the polls.

  Mona Charen

  Support, African American, Black

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have vowed to God, following the example of my father, to be a righteous and gentle prince, to foster piety and the fear of God, to maintain peace, to further the welfare of the country, to be a help to the poor and oppressed, and to be to the righteous man a true protector.

  Wilhelm II

  Country, Kings, Father

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• It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Struggle, Merit, Speak

  On Uncle Tom's Cabin in a letter to Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, January 20, 1853.

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• As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a thousand of years and I bristle at the fact in 21 century Australia women are still being kept out of public life and I'm sorry, when you wear a burqa you cannot attribute to society as much as you can without it.

  Jacques Myard

  Sorry, Years, Australia

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

  David Graeber

  Alliances, Revolutionary, Tacit

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