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“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx

“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin