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• The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Country, Moving

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• [U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Running, Self, Long

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• The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential.

  Jean Vanier

  Mean, Speaks Out, Broken

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• We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable.

  Jean Vanier

  Struggle, Love Is, Class

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.312, Paulist Press

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• True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Real, Lovely, Gold

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.236

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• Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

  Paulo Freire

  Commitment, Love Is, Matter

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.

  Khalil Gibran

  Crush, Powerful, Flower

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• Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, People, Mind

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• What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.

  Epictetus

  Hurt, Kindness, People

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• The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny Inspirational, Vegetarianism, Average

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• It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

  Paulo Freire

  Oppressors

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.

  Georg Ebers

  Feelings, Youth, Now And Then

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• Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation... The socialist programs in Arab history did not always come from the poor, but from men who had known no oppression and became the leaders of the poor. The Arab nation has never been as class-conscious as other nations.

  Saddam Hussein

  Men, Class, Leader

  "Saddam Hussein: a political biography". Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, 2002.

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• I'm not making excuses for the missed opportunities of the Israelis, or the lack of generosity, the lack of empathy that I think goes hand-in-hand with the suspicion. So, yes, there is more that the Israelis need to do to really demonstrate that they do understand the pain of an oppressed people in their minds, and they want to figure out, within the bounds of security and a Jewish democratic state, what can be accomplished.

  Hillary Clinton

  Pain, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophy, Doe, Helping

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• I wish to see the sons and daughters of the world in Peace and busily employed in the more agreeable amusement of fulfilling the first and great commandment, Increase and Multiply : as an encouragement to which we have opened the fertile plains of the Ohio to the poor, the needy and the oppressed of the Earth; any one therefore who is heavy laden, or who wants land to cultivate, may repair thither and abound, as in the Land of promise, with milk and honey: the ways are preparing, and the roads will be made easy, thro' the channels of Potomac and James river.

  George Washington

  Daughter, Encouragement, Son

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• I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

  Deborah Turbeville

  Eerie, Atmosphere, Location

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• I speak about androids because I think the android represents the new 'other.' You can compare it to being a lesbian or being a gay man or being a black woman ... What I want is for people who feel oppressed or feel like the 'other' to connect with the music and to feel like, 'She represents who I am.'

  Janelle Monae

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges...

  George Washington

  Rights, America, Immigration

  "The Writings of George Washington" edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, vol. 27, (p. 254), 1938.

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• All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Grateful, Humility

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• What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

  Dominique de Menil

  Moving, Action, Dignity

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• The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

  Bell Hooks

  Rage, Privileged

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• When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.

  John Trudell

  White, America, People

  "The Indigenous Voice: Visions and Realities (Volume 2)". Book edited by Roger Moody, 1988.

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• History affords us many instances of the ruin of states,
  by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and
  genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one
  part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Law, People, Political

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• How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts' of the oppressor can they contribute to the midwifery of their liberating pedagogy. As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to be like and to be like is to be like the oppressor, this contribution is impossible. The pedagogy of the oppressed is an instrument for their critical discovery that both they and their oppressors are manifestations of dehumanization.

  Paulo Freire

  Discovery, Long, Impossible

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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