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Tag Name "Oppression" (444)

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Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
Gloria Steinem
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
Frederick Douglass
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Oppression makes wise men mad but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
Edmund Burke
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Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
Junius
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Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
Margaret Atwood
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Oppression makes a poor country.
William Penn
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Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.
Linda McCartney
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Simone Weil
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Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
Thomas Paine
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
Simone de Beauvoir
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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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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
Rita Mae Brown
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Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
Cherrie Moraga
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Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
Benazir Bhutto
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Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner.
Tim Gordon
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word useful an absolute meaning nothing is useful if it is not useful to man nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
Andrew Solomon
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Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.
Robert Emmet
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Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
Gary Clark, Jr.
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It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
Edmund Burke
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The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.
Robert H. Jackson
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Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.
Nelson Mandela
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