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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. Vladimir Lenin

Government Class Few Every Once Parliament Allowed Particular Years Oppressed Represent Representatives Repress Decide Which Them

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko

Mind Oppressor Weapon Potent Most Oppressed

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom People Remain Yearning Oppressed Itself Forever Cannot Eventually

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters. Steven Biko

Heart Mind Will Free Oppressor Nothing Scare Powerful Masters His Oppressed Man-Made Controlled Manipulated Then Chains Bind Servitude

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three. John McCain

Hope History World Values Three Thrive Lose Nation Reputation Others Our Distinct Cost Beacon Could Identity Built Oppressed Achievements Influence Enduring Central Mankind Depriving Us

Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous. Jordan Peterson

Politics You Game Dangerous Pride Gender Nationalism Think Sick Say Tends Part Identity Equally Been Oppressed Left Behalf Information Them Racial Ethnic Games Play Right Plays Core

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. Clarence Darrow

Other Severe Penalties Visited Seeking Been Oppressed Offense Help Ever

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. Simone Weil

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. Angela Davis

Politics Struggle Woman Fight People World Political Black Liberation Imperialism Bound Participation Over Oppressed Affiliation Up American Against Flow

I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land. Bobby Sands

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. Carter G. Woodson

Education Good Needs People Others Enslaved Those Out Has-Been Weaker More Because Does However Been Oppressed Than Modern Modern Education So-Called Conformity Worked Much Who Defects

We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, aren't given equal opportunities. Police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those. Colin Kaepernick

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. John Henrik Clarke

You People Oppression First Supposed Oppressed Hold Them Convince

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed. Alexander Pope

Blessed Dejected Someone Never Another Oppressed Elated

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly. Pancho Villa

Life Today Class People Liberty My Life Giving Giving Up Ambition Sole Would About Given Could Gladly Know Real Oppressed Mexico Up If I Could Means Rid Her Bring Chance

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice Struggle Dignity People I Am Before India Weapon More Potent Since Most Am Nonviolent Method Oppressed Than Human Being Human Dignity Available Convinced Ever Resistance

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know. Amiri Baraka

You People Oppression National Living Those Slums Results Never Abuse Voted Know Because Eradicated Been Oppressed Jail Children Wanted Them Who Suffer Start Slavery

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom. Aung San Suu Kyi

Time Freedom Will Thought Face Free Long Say Locked Locked Up Would Would-Be Find Stay Something Never Simply Instinct Towards Come Because Makes Doing However Oppressed Up May Human Want Human Beings Them Turn Themselves Agree Beings Suddenly They Say

I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. Colin Kaepernick

People Continue Oppressed Going Being Stand

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. Germaine Greer

Revolution Oppressed Festival

An oppressed people will always rise. Henning Mankell

People Will Rise Always Oppressed

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