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“It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.”

People Years Wells Long Black My Own White Lonely Hunger Oppressed Liberated Oppressors Long Walk To Freedom

Book:Long Walk To Freedom

Source: Long Walk To Freedom

“Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most oppressed, black people and Jews. Not that they're the only funny people, but culturally, it comes from the pain, you know?”

People Knows Looks Kind Has Beens Funny Pain Culture Black Jew Black People Oppressed Funny People

Author:Sarah Silverman

“Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with that - some pain and anger that come with that and we as black people have to deal with it to heal that. White people have to understand it and have some compassion toward it.”

People Pain America Form Black White Deals Compassion Slavery Heal Black People Oppressed

Author:Common

“No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.”

Thinking Knows Men World Giving May Lasts Culture Black Race Virtue Conditions Circumstances Civilization Capable Surprise Oppressed Last Words

Author:Marcus Garvey

“Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.”

Black Class Taken Middle Movement Oppression African American Middle Class Oppressed Black Women African American Women

Book:Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

“My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.”

People Has Beens Philosophy Feelings Black White Middle Vote East Oppression Yellow Middle East Oppressed Black Or White

Book:Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement

Source: Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement

“Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation.”

People World Wells Black Community Freedom Cutting Victory Concerned Liberation Black People Oppressed Imperialism Tentacles

Book:Assata: An Autobiography

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I'm being effective, because I'm not trying to make them comfortable. The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.”

“It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.”

People Sides Black Position Black People Oppressed Comedic

Author:W. Kamau Bell