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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

Other quotes by Frederick Douglass

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. – Frederick Douglass

Category:
Freedom
Author
Frederick Douglass
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. – Frederick Douglass

Category:
Self-Respect
Author
Frederick Douglass
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Oppression
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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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Oppression

When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice. If you are stronger, you have to help the weaker boy or girl both in play and in the work. – Sarojini Naidu

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Oppression

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? – Vaclav Havel

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Oppression

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

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Oppression

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If you want work well done, select a busy man — the other kind has no time. – Elbert Hubbard

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We had incense and rocknroll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going. – Tommy Hilfiger

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cool

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. – King Hussein I

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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swans egg. – Hans Christian Andersen

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