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#oppress

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What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.


Bell Hooks


#begun #black #establishment #free #goal

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.


Edmund Burke


#citizens #cruel #democracy #exercising #majority

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.


John Henrik Clarke


#ask #because #cannot #educate #educated

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.


Malcolm X


#side #truth #truth is

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.


William J. Clinton


#america #american #among #bond #democracy

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.


Anna Sewell


#cruelty #everybody #i #interfere #now

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.


C. S. Lewis


#good #may #most #oppressive #sincerely

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.


Anna Lindh


#corruption #democratic #democratic society #far #oppression

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.


Edwin Markham


#life #oneself #only #oppressed #side

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.


Adrienne Rich


#oppression #silence #voice #experience






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