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Alas the last of the great Titans… The great one who pricked himself on a senticous bush as he pushed for the freedom of his people from oppression… An epitome of sophronization…We shall not cry, rather we will celebrate a life truly well lived…
Patrick Obahiagbon
Great
Titan
Pricked
Freedom
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
Booker T. Washington
Cultivate
Weak
Love
Unfortunate
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung
Change
Liberate
Accept
Oppresses
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The fight for equality on any front does not equate to the oppression of the oppressors.
Luvvie Ajayi
Fight
Front
Equate
Equality
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
Any
Class
Conspiracy
Degrade
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
Endurance
Limits
Oppress
Prescribed
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Body
Dawn
Day
Enlighten
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
Duty
Enemy
Even
Guard
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
Confucius
Feel
Oppression
Sink
Sorrow
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Confucius
Feared
Government
More
Oppressive
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu
Appreciate
Elephant
Foot
Injustice
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Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
Tennessee Williams
Acquainted
Among
Before
Came
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Demanded
Freedom
Given
Never
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We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel
Encourages
Helps
Must
Neutrality
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Religion must never be used as an excuse to divide us, oppress others or gain unfair advantage.
Muhammadu Buhari
Excuse
Divide
Gain
Unfair
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson
Develop
Hard
Hard Times
Muscles
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You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James Baldwin
Because
Begin
Does
Effectively
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
Malcolm X
Truth
Is
The
Side
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
Malcolm X
Power
Defender
Freedom
Greater
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
Malcolm X
Just
Don't
Believe
That
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In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
Malcolm X
The
Bible
God
Offered
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Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
George W. Bush
Across
America
American
Bringing
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
V.S. Naipaul
About
Going
Just
Much
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I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.
Ilhan Omar
Apologize
Standing
Oppression
Israel
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others
John F. Kennedy
Tolerance
Lack
Commitment
Belief
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An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
Chinua Achebe
Against
Side
Artist
Emperor
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Vladimir Lenin
Allowed
Class
Decide
Every
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Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Vladimir Lenin
Cannot
Free
Nation
Nations
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Charles Baudelaire
Among
Artist
Express
First
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Friedrich Engels
Nation
Free
Oppresses
Other
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The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
Friedrich Engels
Class
Opposition
History
Development
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No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.
Frederick The Great
Government
Exist
Taxation
Levied
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
Imelda Marcos
Bible
Continuous
Crime
Even
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
Imran Khan
Area
Authority
Country
Easily
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C. Odumegwu Ojukwu
History
Chronicle
World
Oppression
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We are humans. We live. We fight, fight because the decision to be free is a decision taken freely and collectively, because to become involved in violent struggle for freedom is the only honor left to an oppressed people threatened with genocide, because in the final analysis the only true bulwark against death is to live.
C. Odumegwu Ojukwu
Humans
Decision
Freely
Genocide
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Since oppression is maintained by force, it is only possible to remove that oppression by a counter force.
C. Odumegwu Ojukwu
Oppression
Force
Remove
Possible
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The antics of every minority that oppresses the majority are always the same. They will try to intimidate you with threats of police action. But do not let us fear arrest
MKO Abiola
Antics
Oppresses
Majority
Intimidate
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The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Think
Present condition
Woman
Oppressed
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Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela
Again
Another
Beautiful
Experience
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I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'
Nora Ephron
Always
Easier
Fist
How
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It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.
Paulo Freire
Absolutely
Awareness
Critical
Essential
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How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?
Paulo Freire
Beings
Developing
Divided
How
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Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.
Paulo Freire
Born
Entity
Oppressor
Revolution
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The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
Paulo Freire
Adopted
Fearful
Freedom
Guidelines
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Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.
Peter Tosh
Away
Barriers
Break
Down
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The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
Jordan Peterson
Appalling
History
Idea
Oppressed
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Freedom can never be given. Freedom is a decision taken by the oppressed against their oppressor.
Seun Kuti
Freedom
Decision
Oppressed
Oppressor
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Any other attitude other than that of resistance when one is under oppression is pathological.
Seun Kuti
Attitude
Resistance
Oppression
Pathological
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Let’s approach each other with love, respect, and understanding, the way Nkrumah would ant, the way Sankara would want, the way Fela would want, not with hate like our oppressors.â€
Seun Kuti
Approach
Each other
Love
Respect
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