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“The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ...Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests.”

Source: Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

“I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.”

Believe Long Certain I Believe Information Members Congress Critical Oppression Long Ago Fullness Diversion

Author:Bo Gritz

“Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.”

Source: Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity

“Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.”

“Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.”

Long Politics Force Women Oppression Chains Empowering Dictatorship Fetters

Author:Angela Merkel

“Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.”

People Able Lying Gay Essence Myth Oppression Deceit Gay People Invisibility

Author:Jean O'Leary

“Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.”

Knows Nations Oppression Fighter Freedom Fighter Albania

Author:Fatos Nano

“Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living situations. You can’t even organize a decent group to combat oppression. How can beings of such low stature hope to do anything? You are not heroes. Stop pretending you are helping by playing commando and get out of the way of someone who can.”

Way Humans Helping Situation Groups Hero Lows Let Me Currents Oppression Fighter Decent Pretending Combat Organize Stature Commandos

Book:The Way To Dawn: Dominion of Eden

Source: The Way To Dawn: Dominion of Eden

“To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.”

Should Years Seems Animal Should Have Slavery Incredibles Philosopher Equality Oppression Greek Animal Rights Immorality Greek Philosopher

Author:Brigid Brophy

“Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they can find reasons to justify their own oppression of’ black people.”

Source: Black Theology and Black Power

“A free man - is a man who is free internally. As all other people, externally he or she depends on society. Internally he or she is independent. A society can become liberated externally - from oppression, but it can become free only when the majority of people are free internally.”

People Men Depends Independent Majority Oppression Liberated Free Man

Author:Simon Soloveychik

“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.”

Passion Poverty Aim Property Injustice Privilege Revenge Cruelty Oppression Momentary Perpetuating

Author:C. L. R. James

“Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.”

Children Grows Black Growth Poverty Our Lives Tree Influence Land Mankind Honor Integrity Oppression Bombs Atoms Thick Burned Surviving Trunks Filth Atom Bomb

Author:Chester Himes

“The fact that 'Scrubs' is so popular in Israel is very important to me. I feel like I'm helping to cancel out the thousands of years of oppression the Jewish people have suffered.”

People Feels Years Important Facts Helping Israel Oppression

Author:Zach Braff

“Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.”

Kind Doe War Facts Earth Pain Individual Causes Community Responsibility Mankind Source Morality Ethics Conscience Misery Oppression Bitterness Sigh Sense Of Responsibility

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder - is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?”

Ifs Persons Self Facts Law Individual Liberty Citizens Property Obstacles Defense Libertarian Arguing Checks Oppression Combination Organized Self Defense Plunder Punisher

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive accretions from oppressor and other cultures, they return to the upward paths of their own culture, which is nourished by the living reality of its environment, and which negates both harmful influences and any kind of subjection to foreign culture. Thus, it may be seen that if imperialist domination has the vital need to practice cultural oppression, national liberation is necessarily an act of culture”

“...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.”

“Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression.”

“Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present.”

Way Has Beens Jesus Church Poor Powerful Christianity Rich Violence Messages Crosses Doctrine Oppression Symbols Thrive Empires Persecution Shields Critique Roman Empire Pacifist Constantine

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.”

People Inspirational Giving Giving Up Oppression Worn Yoke

Book:The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.”

People Way Inspirational Sometimes Deals Violence Hatred Oppression Oppressed Resorts Physical Violence

Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.”

Stills Common Threat Democratic Corruption Oppression Democratic Society

Author:Anna Lindh

“For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.”

Giving Whole Order Wish Secret Silence Greater Oppression Ruling Secrecy Secured Zest

Author:Adam Weishaupt

“Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.”

Way Political Solutions Oppression Coming Out

Book:Outlander: Short Stories and Essays

Source: Outlander: Short Stories and Essays

“Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.”

Humans Has Beens Used Technology Rights Century Instruments Human Rights Absence Oppression Brutal Offspring

Author:John Charles Polanyi

“Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends... ...when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object.”

Source: God of the Machine

“Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.”

May War Term Oppression Revolutionary Civil War Justified Extremity Secession Confounding

Book:Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”

People Needs Hard Happiness Women Oppression Hard Times Empowering Muscles Psychics Difficult Times Tough Times Uplifting In Hard Times

Author:Emily Dickinson

“The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it.”

Made Government History Serious Revolution Exercise Response British Tyranny Oppression Granted Denial Engaged Colony British Government

Author:Edmund Morgan

“It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front - sooner or later there's going to be someone getting hurt. And we have to accept that fact. It's going to happen. It's not going to hurt our movement. Our movement will go on. And it's important that we not let the bully pulpit of the FBI and the other oppression agencies stop us from what we're doing. They are the violent ones. They are the terrorists ... we have to keep doing what we're doing.”

“I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage others. It is inevitable that violence will be used in the struggle and that it will be effective.”

People Ifs Thinking Happens Used Animal Struggle Violence Oppression Inevitable Animal Rights Discouraging Researchers

Author:Jerry Vlasak

“An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.”

Years Heart Spirit Next Waiting Hundred Oppression Crushed Irishmen

Book:The Cripple Of Inishmaan

Source: The Cripple Of Inishmaan

“It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it is people who are weak, rejected, marginalized, counted as useless, who can become a source of life and of salvation for us as individuals as well as for our world. And it is my hope that each one of you may experience the incredible gift of the friendship of people who are poor and weak, that you too, may receive life from them. For they call us to love, to communion, to compassion and to community.”

“The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.”

People Lying Myth Oppression Oppressed Conqueror

Book:Ripening: Selected Work

Source: Ripening: Selected Work

“McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The middle section of Atonement, the two vividly realized set pieces of Robbie's trek to the Channel and Briony's experiences with the wounded evacuees of Dunkirk, would alone have made an outstanding novel…. There is wonderful writing throughout as McEwan weaves his many themes — the accidents of contingency, the sins of absent fathers, class oppression — into his narrative, and in a magical love scene.”

“Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate.”

Hate Justice Liberty Injustice Oppression

Book:Companions of Jesus: The Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador

Source: Companions of Jesus: The Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador

“Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.”

Ifs Needs Art Too Much Produce Pressure Careful Complaining Oppression Daily Life Be Careful Censorship Diamond

Author:Tatyana Tolstaya

“Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. This is a normal social reaction. The Jewish group has thrived on oppression and on the antagonism it has forever met in the world... the root cause is their use of enemies they create in order to keep solidarity.”

World Use Order Social Causes Attitude Enemy Forever Groups Mets Normal Roots Jew Reactions Oppression Solidarity Anti Semitism Antagonism Root Cause

Author:Albert Einstein

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.”

People Thinking Used Grows Tolerance Oppression

Book:Assata: An Autobiography

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do not need citing; 2) excessive ambition, such as Athens' attempted conquest of Sicily in the Peloponnesian War, Philip II's of England via the Armada, Germany's twice-attempted rule of Europe by a self-conceived master race, Japan's bid for an empire of Asia; 3) incompetence or decadence, as in the case of the late Roman empire, the last Romanovs and the last imperial dynasty of China; and finally 4) folly or perversity.”

Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

“Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.”

Ifs Done Culture Theory Female Oppression Subtle Mainstream Egypt Banned Circumcision Mainstream Culture

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.”

Years Wells Long Has Beens Soul Form Culture Particular Long Time Slavery Oppression

Author:Roy Ayers

“Oppression is the essence of power.”

Essence Oppression

Author:Ernst Kaltenbrunner

“Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.”

Streets Gender Stores Oppression Stakes Celebration Iranian Explicit

Author:Inga Muscio

“Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face to face with the world, face to face with the self. And then, of course, something must be done. Nothing stays the same once we have found the God within…. We carry the world in our hearts: the oppression of all peoples, the suffering of our friends, the burdens of our enemies, the raping of the Earth, the hunger of the starving, the joy of every laughing child.”

World Wells Heart Children Self Done Earth Faces Joy Suffering Courses Found Enemy Laughing Dangerous Activity Hunger Burden Oppression Contemplation Starving Face To Face

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.”

Fighting Oppression Gentle Fierce

Author:Dean Spade

“The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.”

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