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Anna Sewell
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
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Bayard Ruskin
[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
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Clarence Darrow
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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General Iberico Saint Jean
First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.
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Hosea Ballou
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.
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Meridel Le Sueur
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
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Saul Bellow
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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Simone Weil
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.
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Tacitus
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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William Penn
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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