Oppression

(202 votes)   FRUSTRATIONS BEGAT MADNESS.

OLAWALE AKINRIMISI
AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVIST

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(201 votes)   FURSTRATIONS BEGAT MADNESS.

OLAWALE AKINRIMISI
AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVIST

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(151 votes)   They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(130 votes)   You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(101 votes)   Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(93 votes)   Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(91 votes)   The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.

Andrea Dworkin
1946-, American Feminist Critic

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(78 votes)   Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn't stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband -- it creeps up insidiously... step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone.

Baron Lane

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(75 votes)   Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher

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(73 votes)   First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.

General Iberico Saint Jean

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(73 votes)   The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Meridel Le Sueur

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(70 votes)   A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(70 votes)   We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

Nathanael Greene

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(68 votes)   In Germany they came first for the Communist, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Martin Niemoeller

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(67 votes)   True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

Vaclav Havel
1936-, Czech Playwright, President

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