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Toni Morrison
“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”
Toni Morrison

George Orwell
“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
George Orwell, 1984

Andrea Dworkin
“If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.”
Andrea Dworkin, Life and Death

Aung San Suu Kyi
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear

Paulo Freire
“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

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