#opression

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others. ↗

— A Gentlemen

#inspirational #opression #philosphy #war #inspirational

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my make-up be seen?' Are they going to whip me?' No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?' Where is my freedom of speech?' My life, is it livable?' What's going on in the political prisons? ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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