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#1

“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.”
― Frederick Douglass

tags: freedom, justice, oppression, slavery

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#2

“And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express”
― Wilhelm Reich, Beyond Psychology: Letters and Journals 1934-1939

tags: life, oppression, suppression, truth

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#3

“I hope you don’t mind, but I took the liberty of taking away your freedoms. –Uncle Sam ”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

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#4

“Everyone who is not happy must be shot.”
― John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl

tags: happiness, oppression, shooting, violence

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#5

“We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.”
― Lydia Maria Child

tags: classism, imperialism, injustice, oppression, racism, rationalization, sexism

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#6

“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That’s what things look like in our cities at present”
― Robert Walser, The Tanners

tags: city, class-warfare, courage, cowardice, inequality, money, neighborhoods, oppression, poor, poverty, urban, urbanization, wealth

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#7

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: authority, brute-force, force, oppression, wisdom

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#8

“Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently endangered under present conditions. They assume that others think and act generously, kindly and helpfully, in accordance with the laws of life. This natural attitude, fundamental to healthy children as well as primitive man, inevitably represents a great danger in the struggle for a rational way of life as long as the emotional plague subsists, because the plague-ridden impute their own manner of thinking and acting to their fellow men. A kindly man believes that all men are kindly, while one infected with the plague believes that all men lie and cheat and are hungry for power. In such a situation, the living are at an obvious disadvantage. When they give to the plague-ridden they are sucked dry, then ridiculed or betrayed.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

tags: charity, exploitation, oppression, orgonem-emotional-plague

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#9

“It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeguard and develop the life-force; this will not detract from their goodness, as long as they stand courageously by the truth. There is ground for hope in the fact that among millions of decent, hard-working people there are only a few plague-ridden individuals, who do untold harm by appealing to the dark, dangerous drives of the armored average man and mobilizing him for political murder. There is but one antidote to the average man's predisposition to plague: his own feelings for true life. The life force does not seek power but demands only to play its full and acknowledged part in human affairs. It manifests itself through love, work and knowledge.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

tags: emotional-plague, exploitation, knowledge, love, oppression, orgone, politics, work

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#10

“Laws are chains to the many, and whips to the few.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

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#11

“Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because she is a woman, Judith cheerfully applies for admission at, let's call it, Smithcliff, a prestigious women's college. She is denied admission on the grounds that
the dorms and classrooms can't
accommodate wheelchairs, that her speech pattern would interfere with her elocution lessons, and that her presence would upset the other students. There is also the suggestion that she is not good marriage material for the men at the elite college to which Smithcliff is a bride-supplying "sister school." The letter inquires as to why she hasn't been institutionalized.
When she goes to the administration building to protest the decision, she can't get up the flight of marble steps on the Greek Revival building. This edifice was designed to evoke a connection to the Classical world, which practiced infanticide of disabled newborns.”
― Rosemarie Garland Thomson

tags: ableism, accessibility, disability, education, humor, oppression, prejudice

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#12

“The core of liberation theology is profoundly "theologal" - that is, rooted in the very nature of God. You see, there's an immediate relationship between God, oppression, liberation: God is in the poor who cry out. And God is the one who listens to the cry and liberates, so that the poor no longer need to cry out. ( Leonardo Boff, p. 166)”
― Mev Puleo, The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

tags: god, liberation-theology, oppression

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#13

“London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.”
― Nick Cohen

tags: activism, arabs, bigotry, britain, islam, islamism, islamophobia, journalism, leftism, london, oppression, politics, reactionary, religion, religious-fundamentalism, right-wing-politics, theocracy, united-kingdom

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#14

“An individual excels where the institution fails.”
― Joel T. McGrath

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#15

“When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

tags: bribed, bribery, bribes, bribing, cost-of-living, misery, oppressed, oppression, poverty

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#16

“Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively kept in an inferior situation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: accomplishments, change, inferiority, oppression, recreate, world

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#17

“Domination is a relationship, not a condition; it depends on the participation of both parties. Hierarchical power is not just the gun in the policeman's hand; it is just as much the obedience of the ones who act as if it is always pointed at them. It is not just the government and the executives and the armed forces; it extends through society from top to bottom, an interlocking web of control and compliance. Sometimes all it takes to be complicit in the oppression of millions is to die of natural causes.”
― CrimethInc., Contradictionary

tags: anarchism, anarchy, armed-forces, compliance, complicity, crimethinc, domination, executives, government, gun, law-enforcement, oppression, participation, police, relationship, society

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#18

“eRemember though, that happiness can never be achieved through the expectations levied on another; such a notion is not doomed to fail—but is just doomed! Happiness can never be achieved through the distress or destruction that one imposes on the other person. When a child, now grown-up, does not resolve their deep-seeded anger with a parent or parents, the “other person” plays Hell trying to make-up for it. Married, divorced or dead, the 'other person' can never replace what was lost so much
earlier in the life and soul of the oppressed. Forgiveness must be the course for any future, substantive relationships.”
― H. Kirk Rainer, A Once and Always Father

tags: expectations, forgiveness, happiness, oppression, relationships

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#19

“...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
― Neil Postman

tags: oppression, technology

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#20

“Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system to the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged in a new "Culture of Silence".”
― Richard Shaull, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

tags: modern-society, oppression, technology

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#21

“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone MADE equal. Each man man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: equal, oppression, sameness

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#22

“Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.”
― Steven Erikson

tags: law, oppression, power

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#23

“The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.”
― Paulo Freire

tags: freedom, oppression

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#24

“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

tags: expedience, oppression, right

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#25

“[The myth of the absolutizing of ignorance] implies the existence of someone who decrees the ignorance of someone else. The one who is doing the decreeing defines himself and the class to which he belongs as those who know or were born to know; he thereby defines others as alien entities. The words of his own class come to be the "true" words, which he imposes or attempts to impose on the others: the oppressed, whose words have been stolen from them. Those who steal the words of others develop a deep doubt in the abilities of the others and consider them incompetent. Each time they say their word without hearing the word of those whom they have forbidden to speak, they grow more accustomed to power and acquire a taste for guiding, ordering, and commanding. They can no longer live without having someone to give orders to. Under these circumstances, dialogue is impossible.”
― Paulo Freire

tags: oppression

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#26

“There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Lord of the Rings: Apocalyptic Prophecies

tags: catholic, catholic-author, christian, dark-truths, freedom, governments, hard-truths, hypocrisy, jrr-tolkien, liberty, lord-of-the-rings, loss-of-freedom, lotr, oppression, politicians, sad-but-true, truth, tyrants

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#27

“If you are blaming the oppressed rather than the oppressor you know that something is wrong.”
― Adam Snowflake

tags: oppression

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#28

“They [feminists] share the instinct for tyranny and destruction - and they are filled with self-loathing. In the end, leftist feminists yearn to submit to, and submerge themselves within, a despotic monolith. Because they despise their own society and are bent on its destruction, they cannot concede that adversarial cultures may be more evil, because that would legitimize their own host society - and they can't allow that. It would rob them of the moral indignation -- and the identity of being victims -- that lies at the foundation of their politics of hate.”
― Jamie Glazov

tags: destruction, feminism, feminists, left-wing, leftist, oppression, politics, tyranny, victim-politics

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#29

“Forcing your love on someone who doesn't love you is an emotional rape, because your victim's heart was not aroused, you jumped into it without foreplay.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

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#30

“The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

tags: kind, language, oppression, oppressors, talk, think, victims, worst

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