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“Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.”

Men Giving May Pain Purpose Evil Plans Notion Violent Tyranny Oppression Mature Regeneration Outbreaks

Book:The History of Freedom: Great Event

Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event

“Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.”

Humans Order Literature Easy Human Beings Failing Adversity Oppression Precise

Author:Rita Dove

“Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.”

Ifs Needs Spiritual Too Much Cost Stones Silent Oppression Protest Throwing Bullets Oppressed Persistent Terrific Dissatisfaction Oppressors

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.”

Soul White Tyranny Oppression Secure Emancipation Oppressors

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?”

Political Asks Views Rights Oppression Secure Political View Cadre

Author:Wei Jingsheng

“Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.”

World Way Believe Made Matter States I Believe Nations Race Illusion Profit Wide Oppression Behave Score Exploitation Imperialism Asian Dominance Plunder

Author:Han Suyin

“I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression. . . .”

Source: Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992

“A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the level of ideas, practice makes actual at the level of facts: by its very existence, lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a 'natural group.' A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one . . .”

Men Has Beens Ideas Facts Political Social Natural Levels Existence Practice Groups Objects Approach Feminist Accomplish Oppression Analysis Division Artificial Heterosexuality

Author:Monique Wittig

“A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.”

World Doe Lasts Nations Money Democracy Masters Abuse Absolutes Slave Prepared Injustice Extremes Socialism Oppression Absolute Power Clemency Injustice And Oppression

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be groundless; times such as these are hard for scientists-days of leaden gray skies bringing with them a miserable sense of oppression and inadequacy.”

Years Two Hard Science Sky Evidence Scientist Seeking Oppression Miserable Gray Weary Hypothesis Inadequacy Gray Skies

Book:Advice to a young scientist

Source: Advice to a young scientist

“As long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.”

Ifs Long Individual Roles Democracy Willing Elements Tools Productions Meaningful Oppression Compelled Coercion

Author:Noam Chomsky

“What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.”

World Needs Earth Heaven Sin Hunger Humanism Oppression Redemption Pins Hopes Up

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.”

Hatred Majority Oppression

Author:Bram Fischer

“If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.”

Ifs Country Justice Poor Oppression Righteousness Astounded

Author:Solomon

“I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.”

Thinking Children Realizing Liberty Taken Blessing Enormous Oppression Immigrants Fragile

Author:Ted Cruz

“When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.”

America Law Found Liberty Kings Europe Oppression Republic Heritage Parliament Britons

Author:Caleb Cushing

“You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.”

World Want Looks Body Humanity Language Forget Violence Cruelty Oppression Never Forget Parallels Sideways

Author:Ariel Dorfman

“This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.”

Turns Culture Progress Source Satisfaction Oppression Exploitation This Society Drudgery

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.”

Sound Black Rights Males Civil Rights Oppression Black Males

Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos and the spatial infinity and temporal immortality it provides may well be just the remedy for these age-old problems. Access to the boundless resources of the universe may once and for all puncture the pressure of population and politics of scarcity which have generated war, oppression, and plagued our species from the start.”

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