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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.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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«Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.»
Author: Vladimir Lenin
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oppresses
«Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art»
«Do not say, that if the people do good to us, we will do good to them; and if the people oppress us, we will oppress them; but determine that if people do you good, you will do good to them; and if they oppress you, you will not oppress them»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
| About:
Goodness
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«STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.REG: What?!LORETTA: It's my right as a man.JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?LORETTA: I want to have babies.REG: You want to have babies?!LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.REG: But... you can't have babies.LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!»
Author: Monty Python
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«Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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«He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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«There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes»
«Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
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«Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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