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There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#poetry #oppression

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars--a cage, so peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#oppression

...oppression is as American as apple pie... ↗

— Audre Lorde

#oppression

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#crime #entity #findings #having #however

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable... ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#thought #prejudice

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#alone #even #genders #groups #ignorance

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#race #racism #hatred

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#people #prejudice #prejudice

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#prejudice #racism #small-mindedness #prejudice

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. ↗

— Mark Twain

#travel #prejudice