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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the destruction of misery, of superstitions, of hatred. Therefore, every blow given to the institutions of private property and to the government, every exaltation of the conscience of man, every disruption of the present conditions, every lie unmasked, every part of human activity taken away from the control of the authorities, every augmentation of the spirit of solidarity and initiative, is a step towards Anarchism.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, neither persons nor property will be safe.

People who condemn Palestinian retaliation against their oppressors have no real answers for what Palestinians should do instead, besides nothing and die.

Apartheid states aren’t democracies.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

I regret in 2002 backing down from backing the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel, the Second Intifada. I saw what an awful life they live under constant occupation and oppression.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Feminism was supposed to mean freeing women from oppression and inequality. Now it means [the IDF] shooting off Palestinian children’s feet with sniper rifles.

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty – that’s positive.

The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.

Modern life … is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

I have these very strong women in my life who do not take masculinity as a sign of oppression toward them. There are a lot of, I think, cowardly genes that lead to people surrendering their jeans and putting on a skirt.

The struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.

I couldn’t stand for a flag that represented tyranny and oppression. Not just from a domestic perspective but from a global one. It’s supposed to represent equality and justice for all, and I believe the flag is a symbol that’s supposed to represent the character of the people. When that character is not in line with what I believe in, then I’m opposed to that symbol. I couldn’t see myself standing and still can’t.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it….Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

The English language has the largest vocabulary and is the most expressive. But according to the Woke imbeciles, this makes it oppressive.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary. This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter – You know, I would be free to be so much more… I guess part of me or a part of who I am, a part of what I do is being a warrior – a reluctant warrior, a reluctant struggler. But I do it, because I’m committed to life.

Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. This is a normal social reaction. The Jewish group has thrived on oppression and on the antagonism it has forever met in the world… the root cause is their use of enemies they create in order to keep solidarity.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody’s business to interfere when they see it.

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights and liberties can be preserved only by resistance to that which would destroy them. And to defend certain basic God-given rights and liberties is not immoral but righteous.