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“You’re under no obligation to accept my oppression, but it is strongly recommended. I’ll make you love me, even if I have to impoverish you and then imprison you. –Uncle Sam”
― This Book Has No Title
― This Book Has No Title
“We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.”
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“Oppression
Now dreams
Are not available
To the dreamers,
Nor songs
To the singers.
In some lands
Dark night
And cold steel
Prevail--
But the dream
Will come back,
And the song
Break
Its jail.”
― The Panther and the Lash
Now dreams
Are not available
To the dreamers,
Nor songs
To the singers.
In some lands
Dark night
And cold steel
Prevail--
But the dream
Will come back,
And the song
Break
Its jail.”
― The Panther and the Lash
“The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.”
― LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
― LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
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