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oppressed
«I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed.. . . I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.»
«It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power»
Author: Robert Mugabe
| Keywords:
blacks, justification, oppress, oppressed, The Blacks, The Whites, whites
«I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them»
Author: Robin Morgan
| About:
Hate,
Politics
| Keywords:
class feeling, hating, oppressed, oppressing, the class, viable
«Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.»
«In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
oppressed, oppressing, rebellious, resigned, situate, situated, situating
«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.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
crushed, crushing, crush out, happening, on the side, oppressed, placed
«Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? / Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? / Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? / Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
acceptable, afflict, bow down, break bread, break loose, bulrush, bulrushes, cast out, let loose, light bread, morning glory, oppressed, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, speedily
«For thy power standeth not in multitude nor thy might in strong men: for thou art a God of the afflicted, an helper of the oppressed, an upholder of the weak, a protector of the forlorn, a saviour of them that are without hope.»
«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:
demanded, freedom, oppressed, oppresses, oppressing, oppressor, voluntarily