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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King Jr.
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Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

Evelyn Cunningham
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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Germaine Greer
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Alexander Pope
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Never underestimate internalized racism. People can be oppressed, yet continue to express their oppression in their own choices.

Susan Morris
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We are going to address the issue. If they really try to ban it, we are not going to take it lying down. It doesn't stop here. We are going to meet and make sure our voices are heard. We are not going to let our culture be oppressed.

Andreas Hale
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We are saying there can be no Freedom Day celebrations while there are people who are oppressed.

Jackson Simon
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I will say `yes' because I suffered and I was oppressed during the former regime, ... I can now vote freely.

Ali Hussein
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It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

Robert Mugabe
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Bell Hooks
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I have dedicated my life to women's rights. Wherever a woman is oppressed, I will go there and fight for her rights.

Mukhtar Mai
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Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

Sheila Rowbotham
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Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
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In such a climate, children learn quickly to become like the oppressor and not like the oppressed.

Nonie Darwish
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I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Robin Morgan
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I think that's always how it's been, ... I certainly didn't invent it. Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most oppressed, black people and Jews. Not that they're the only funny people, but culturally, it comes from the pain, you know?

Sarah Silverman
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An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Henry Clay
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Sweden has equality between men and women. To introduce exceptions for Muslims so that women can be oppressed with the support of the law is completely unacceptable to me.

Lars Leijonborg
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