"Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman."
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"Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes."
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"To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life."
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"Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression."
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"Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation."
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"Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself."
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"The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get."
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"Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana."
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"The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands."
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"The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such."
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"I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive."
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"The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition."
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"Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds."
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"Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression."
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"When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about."
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"True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?"
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"Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions."
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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."
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"The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions."
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"standing in line is a form of oppression"
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