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An oppressed people will always rise. -- Henning Mankell
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. -- Henry Clay
Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. -- Jaron Lanier
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. -- John Henrik Clarke
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. -- Kim Il-sung
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. -- Simon Wiesenthal
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. -- Chinua Achebe
I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right. -- Common
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems. -- Aly Khan
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. -- John Henrik Clarke
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. -- Karl Marx
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed. -- Barbara Smith
I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression. -- Malcolm X
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality. -- Evo Morales
Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people. -- Edward P. Jones
You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good. -- Yahoo Serious
Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain. -- Jonathan Mayhew
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. -- Angela Davis
I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed. -- Julian Fellowes
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -- Assata Shakur
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. -- Malcolm X
East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now? -- Steven Knight

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