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Source: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…

“I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.”

Thinking Knows Kind Home Know How Violence Security Patterns Familiar Cruelty Oppression Cages

Book:Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World

Source: Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World

“In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of the hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul. I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is rot.”

People Knows Humans Has Beens Soul Whole Hands Might Faces Fighting Taught Injustice Tongue Oppression Fists Cunning Human Soul Brutality Armor Traitor Prudent Hypothetical

Author:Carson McCullers

“...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything ‘occult’ as evil, and the prejudice survived.”

Mean Evil Felt Church Religious Worship Devil Prejudice Despite Oppression Survived Threatened Occult Conjuring Devil Worship

Author:Dan Brown

“Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.”

“If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared. (pg. 59, "Racism and the Economy")”

Source: The Hidden Wound

“By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!”

Pain Dies Fall Liberty Son Proud Lows Lays Blow Oppression Chains Tyrants Woe Veins Foe Drains Your Son Usurpers

Author:Robert Burns

“God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.”

Country God Religion Fear Break Records Team Atheism Rage Oppression Patriotism Patriotic Teamwork Atheistic Bloodshed God And Country Anti God Unbeatable

Book:My Last Breath

Source: My Last Breath

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

People Ifs Lying Hate Politics Media Careful Newspapers Oppression Journalism African American Deception Propaganda Deceit Manipulation Black People Oppressed Media Control Hajj Stacey

Author:Malcolm X

“In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.”

Freedom Democracy Citizens Exercise Capable Majority Conservative Oppression Minorities Tyranny Of The Majority Majority And Minority Minority Government

Book:Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris

Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris

“It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.”