Quotes 21 till 40 of 42.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 114 -
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 277 -
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
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The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.
Resisting Representations Outlaw Culture -
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
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The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
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Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women.... they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.
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We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
A Lonely Rage (1978) -
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
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What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
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What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 184 -
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
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