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Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.
Tim Wise
Tim Wise
Tim Wise
Born: Oct 4, 1968

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Injustice, Oppression, Progress, Nothing, Relative, System, Must, Only, Attacked, Until, Deal, Always, Still, Eradicated, Oppressed, Form, Then, Modified, Viewed, Even

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Angela Davis, Cesar Chavez, Gloria Steinem, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Noam Chomsky, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony

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