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The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. Jordan Peterson

History Women Throughout Idea Were Oppressed Appalling Theory

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' Margaret Atwood

Beginning Nationalism Boring Am Cultural Oppressed Canadian Really

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect. Parker Palmer

Truth Respect People Decision Critical Worthy Demands Inward Make Oppressed Contradict Begin Stop Movements Keep Deeply Inner External Consenting

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration. Paulo Freire

Life Experience Oppressor Way Point Sharing Feel Toward Attraction Becomes Overpowering His His Way Oppressed Existential Irresistible Certain Aspiration Certain Point

Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently. Samuel R. Delany

Change Science World Important Live Think Thinking Change The World Those Out Able About Particularly Also Because Exercise Science Fiction How Oppressed Going Just Fiction Might Us Who Works Differently

Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free. William Lloyd Garrison

God Obedience Dangerous Path Tyranny Will Free Undone Believe Living Omnipotence Say Those Claim True His Oppressed Deny Bands Burdens Heavy Should Who Wickedness Set

Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me. Alexandra Fuller

My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed. Angela Rye

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The text, 'Is God a White Racist', By Rev. Dr. William Jones, is still studied by theologians and academics and taught in institutes of higher learning. The book called into question the chief construction of black liberation theology: that God is on the side of the oppressed. Anthea Butler

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed. Barbara Smith

Women People Problem Black Oppose Anti-Semitism White Our All People Scepticism Color Major Major Problem Oppressed Challenged Actually Profound

You can be poor, middle class, or rich - it doesn't matter. The black card will still confer upon you an entire history of oppression, even if you've never been oppressed. Flash the black card, and most white people will cower. Candace Owens

I don't know why people like being oppressed. Candace Owens

People Like Know Oppressed Being Why

All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator. CeeLo Green

Art Alone People Others Alienation Intimate Way Stems Most Opinion Doing Oppressed Repercussions Afraid Place Creator

Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people. Chiang Kai-shek

Work Love People Sacrifice Leader Understanding Sympathy Late Our Liberation Sun Carried Spirit Brought About His Years Oppressed Revolutionary Chinese Chinese People Forty Forty Years Dr Jesus Universal Profound Last

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Time Culture Women Debate Gender Before Rigid Tainted Perhaps Real Were West Oppressed Roles Common African Story

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries. Clara Zetkin

Class Society Countries Oppressed Same Exploited Workers Interests

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then. Curtis Armstrong

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'Oppressed' is one of the terms that's very, very sellable and easily thrown around these days because everybody feels it, no matter what side you're on. We thrive on it. We're addicted to it. David Draiman

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Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian. David Suzuki

People Doors Those Cases Emergency Open Particularly Always Proud Oppressed Offered Canada Canadian Refuge Boat Vietnam Should Who

Nobody in this country goes around saying: 'I'm feeling very oppressed by the E.U.' Well, one or two people do, but they're a bit odd. Ultimately, if they're getting oppressed by the E.U., they're going to start to feel oppressed by something else and just switch to a new subject of oppression. Dominic Grieve

Saying People Oppression Feeling Country Else Bit One Or Two Something Something Else Feel Nobody New Well Around Odd Subject Oppressed Ultimately Very Goes Getting Going Just Switch Start Two Two People

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman Reality Think Degradation More Am Condition Oppressed Present

As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation. Ellen Willis

Class Anger Political Humiliation Totalitarianism Rise Economically Partly Islamic Oppressed Subordination Appeal Fascism Population Populist

Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation. Ernest Mandel

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Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. Evo Morales

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