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• If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

  Malcolm X

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• When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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• I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I’m writing a poem or drawing, I’m not a female; I’m an artist.

  Patti Smith

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

  Clara Zetkin

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• Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

  Erica Jong

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• Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

  Thabo Mbeki

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• American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

  Bill Clinton

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

  Clarence Darrow

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• The oppressed never free themselves – they do not have the necessary strengths.

  Clare Boothe Luce

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• Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

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• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  Hall Caine

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• Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

  Alexander Pope

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