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“Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.”

World Bits Violence Keys Argument Claims Defense Driven Ideology Around The World Britain Oppressed

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.”

Ifs Humans Speak Human Beings Boys Violence Dog Politician Stones Cat Sells Add Charity Contempt Oppressed Organize Oppressors Good Politicians

Book:A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Source: A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.”

Roles Violence Stage Tables Rounds Revenge Ads Oppressed Oppressors

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“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.”

Ifs Would Be Results Existence Violence Objectives Oppression Establishment Oppressed Sponsors Inauguration Subjugation

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.”