654 Quotes About Oppression
- Author Frederick Douglass
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When I think that these precious souls are to-day shut up in the prison-house of slavery, my feelings overcome me, and I am almost ready to ask, "Does a righteous God govern the universe? and for what does he hold the thunders in his right hand, if not to smite the oppressor, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the spoiler?
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- Author Ibram X. Kendi
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Racist ideas clouded the discrimination , rationalized the racial disparities, defined the enslaved, as opposed to the enslavers, as the problem people.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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When the eyes are teary and lips are dreary, never consider sitting still.Obliterate loyalty to atrocities of the norm waking up to liberationville.
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- Author DaShanne Stokes
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Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.
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- Author DaShanne Stokes
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Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.
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- Author Yaa Gyasi
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No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.
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- Author James Baldwin
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You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too early. We cannot be free until they are free.
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- Author Raif Badawi
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Any religion-based state has a mission to limit the minds of its people, to fight the developments of history and logic, and to dumb down its citizens. It’s important to stand in the way of such a mentality, to deny it from continuing its mission to murder the souls of its people, killing them deep within while they are still alive and breathing.
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- Author Raif Badawi
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States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear.
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