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Oppression Quotes

"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time"

"The truth about racism: It’s all about control."

"You don't have to burn books to destroy culture."

"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought"

"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them"

"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the state of emergency in which we live is not the exception but the rule"

"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter"

"Where annual elections end where slavery begins"

"The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves"

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent, we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter"

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