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Quote by James Baldwin
You know, its not the world that was my oppressor, because what th

You know, its 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

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. – James Baldwin

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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – James Baldwin

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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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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

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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. – G. K. Chesterton

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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. – Benjamin Franklin

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I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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