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• I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

  Jose Rizal

  Doe, Reign, Noli Me Tangere

  "Mi Ultimo Adios". Poem by José Rizal, translated by Charles Derbyshire. Stanza 13, 1897.

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• The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Writing, Names

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

  Richard Price

  Law, World

  Richard Price (1790). “A Discourse on the Love of Our Country: Delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the Meeting-house in the Old Jewry, to the Society for Commemorating the Revolution in Great Britain”, p.50

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• Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Government, Understanding, Rifles

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). “The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation”, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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• Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Atheism, Veils

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.221, Oxford University Press

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• If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.

  John Locke

  Men, Hands, Desire

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.385

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• Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Long, Evil, Oppression

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Mother, Hate, Long

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• Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naiveté or selfishness, will be eternally disgraced and will burn in the fury of the Islamic nations.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Islamic, Israel, Selfishness

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• Our parents are our first oppressors.

  Jerry Rubin

  Parent, Firsts

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• Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.

  Max Anders

  Compassion, Sometimes, Forgotten

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• The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Confused, Opportunity, Color

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• Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Hate, Tyrants

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• It happens every millennium. Now more than ever, man threatens to destroy himself with his own technology, and all the ideas contained within Big Brother exist within Little Brother. We're all watching ourselves. We are our own oppressors. This is a time when an idea like God is needed more than ever. For me, I've found that God exists within yourself and what you create. The only thing we've got to look forward to is saving ourselves

  Marilyn Manson

  Brother, Technology, Men

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• REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

  Rick Bayan

  Opportunity, Waiting, Revolutionary

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• But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Men, Existential

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.45, 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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• There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

  Susan Powter

  Race, Half, Earth

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• It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

  Eric Hoffer

  Shapes, Hated, Oppressed

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• We're coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming and we will not stop, we will not relent until your country is free.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Medicine, Reign

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• It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.

  Yehuda Berg

  Powerful, Real, Fighting

  "Talkin’ About a Revolution" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, White, People

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, White, Black

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• It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out.

  Assata Shakur

  Mean, Exception To The Rule, Resistance

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• In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own hands. Their flesh is my flesh, their blood is my blood, their pain is my pain, their smile is my smile.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Blood, Hands

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