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“All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, oppression, hatred and self-righteousness are the opposite of Love. So going to war, for example, in the name of religion, is a complete contradiction. No pure religious leader would ever support this.”
― The Truth AD Infinitum

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“It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: anger, hatred, oppression

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“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only master of all is the Creator, and he created all men to be free. Freedom is a God-given right, not a human-granted gift. No man should have to fight to breathe in good health and peace.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: breathe, collective-power, creator, fight, fighting, free, freedom, freewill, ggod, gift, god, health, human, human-rights, humane, humanity, justice, man, master, oppression, peace, politics, poverty, right, rights, slave, slavery, struggle, suffering, truth, will, willpower, world-peace

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“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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“As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more important than being a woman; whether feminist struggle to end sexist oppression is more important than the struggle to racism or vice versa. All such questions are rooted in competitive either/or thinking, the belief that the self is formed in opposition to an other...Most people are socialized to think in terms of opposition rather than compatibility. Rather than seeing anti-racist work as totally compatible with working to end sexist oppression, they often see them as two movements competing for first place.”
― Bell Hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

tags: black, compatibility, feminism, movement, opposition, oppression, racism, sexism, woman

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