"Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it."
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"With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation."
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"An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it."
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"Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority."
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"Women are a colonized people."
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"Oppression won't win, the light comes from within."
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"No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression."
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"Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint."
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"Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression."
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"Resistance to oppression is second nature."
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"Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth."
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"Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Poland's struggle to be Poland and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted."
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"It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means."
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"Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others."
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"I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison."
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