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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Robin Morgan
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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
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Lake Worth Beach
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Robin Evonne Morgan
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