Quotes with oppressions

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• Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

  Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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• I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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• If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

  Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 142

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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• There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions.

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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• When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

  Caleb Cushing
  American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• oppressions
• inseparable
• parliaments
• blackness
• therefore
• struggles

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