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We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York, for example: they'd give Negroes little five-cent jobs here and there - and they thought they had something. And the same in Chicago and any of the metropolitan areas.
Thurgood Marshall / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Chicago
Example
Metropolitan
Oppressed
Area
For Example
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In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They're impoverished, they're starving, they're brutalized.
Suzanne Collins / Writer
War
Criteria
Games
Hunger
Oppressed
Rebellion
Situation
Starving
Taken
Idea
Gladiator
Off
Hunger Games
Impoverished
Put
Meet
Necessary
Terms
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Nobody in this country goes around saying: 'I'm feeling very oppressed by the E.U.' Well, one or two people do, but they're a bit odd. Ultimately, if they're getting oppressed by the E.U., they're going to start to feel oppressed by something else and just switch to a new subject of oppression.
Dominic Grieve /
Odd
Oppressed
Switch
Two People
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
Kangana Ranaut / Film Actress
Acknowledge
Conscious
Importance
Interiors
Oppressed
Education Country People
Herself
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Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.
Paulo Freire / Educator
Action
Conditions
Critical
Dialogue
Historical
Liberating
Oppressed
Perceive
Stage
Struggle
Vary
Accordance
Content
Carried
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Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.
Opal Tometi /
Abolition
Civil Rights
Crow
Jim Crow
Oppressed
Fundamentally
Jim
Legislative
Watershed
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When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.
Marjane Satrapi / Novelist
Equality
Men
Feminist
Fine
Half
Hardcore
Men And Women
Oppressed
Revolution
Thinking
Men Women Society
Advanced
Women Men Society
Outside
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I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.
Tayari Jones / Author
Grew
Household
Injustice
Justice
Mind
Mistreated
Obligation
Oppressed
Social
Social Justice
Understood
Against
Stand
Writer
Always
Believed
Doing
Side
Even
Expressing
Having
Opinions
Silenced
Speaking
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The makers love to show women being oppressed, and the audience also loves watching these stories. I'm sorry to say, but a large portion of the audience that watches these shows are women. They make women cry and abuse in the shows and women audiences are glued to such plots. I don't understand this syndrome.
Alok Nath /
Makers
Oppressed
Sorry
Watches
Glued
Large Portion
Plots
Portion
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It's worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule. Certain ethnic, religious, racial or indigenous groups were deliberately privileged over others in order to create a sense of investment in upholding the power structure.
Ash Sarkar /
Certain
Colonialism
Groups
Indigenous
Investment
Oppressed
Order
Pointing
Privileged
Religious
Structure
Between
Were
Conflicts
Create
Often
Deliberately
Divide
Ethnic
Fact
Over
Power Structure
Racial
Result
Rule
Sense
Upholding
Worked
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It is evident that it is the belief of Christian people in this country and in all other enlightened portions of the world that as a nation, we have passed through a severe ordeal - that severe judgments have been poured out upon us on account of the manner in which a poor, oppressed race was treated in this country.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Belief
Enlightened
Evident
Oppressed
Poor
Portions
Race
Severe
Account
World People Poor
Nation
World Country People
Judgments
Manner
Ordeal
Passed
Poured
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Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.
Samuel R. Delany / Author
Exercise
Fiction
Oppressed
Science Fiction
Works
Change The World
Differently
Particularly
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
Gail Collins / Journalist
Bothered
Giving
Oppressed
Totally
Freedom History Women
Fought
Hundred Years
Several
Suddenly
Talks
Tendency
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Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.
Jordan Peterson / Psychologist
Behalf
Core
Dangerous
Games
Gender
Identity
Information
Left
Nationalism
Oppressed
Play
Pride
Sick
Game
Been
Them
Part
Equally
Ethnic
Say
Plays
Right
Racial
Tends
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You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.
Amiri Baraka / Writer
Abuse
Jail
Oppressed
Results
Slavery
Slums
Voted
Eradicated
Suffer
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The Kurds had always had a bad time. They were oppressed by the Ottoman empire. Then, at the end of the First World War, they were promised a homeland, but the new Turkish state refused to give them any land, while the British went and created the new state of Iraq and sent aircraft to bomb the Kurds there into submission.
Adam Curtis /
War
Aircraft
British
First World War
Homeland
Oppressed
Submission
Turkish
Time Always World
Time War Always
Bad Time
Bomb
War Time World
Created
Empire
First World
Promised
Refused
Sent
World War
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Black Lives Matter has become what black communities all over the world have needed it to become. At times, it is a hashtag; at other moments, it is a declaration, a cry of rage, a sharing of light. It has become a movement that is international, worldwide in its scope of liberation for black and oppressed people everywhere.
Patrisse Cullors /
Black
Cry
Declaration
International
Liberation
Light
Matter
Moments
Movement
Needed
Oppressed
Rage
Scope
Everywhere
World Black People
Communities
Times
Over
Sharing
Worldwide
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A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not that at all. It is about power for the female left. And they have this, I think, ridiculous idea that American women are oppressed by the patriarchy and we need laws and government to solve our problems for us.
Phyllis Schlafly / Lawyer
Female
Oppressed
Patriarchy
Women Are
Advance
American Women
Problems
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During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Happiness
America
Congress
Enjoyed
Example
France
Oppressed
Revolution
Said
Seeing
Speech
Thinking
Everywhere
Completed
French
Last
Lesson
Occur
Published
Serve
Voyage
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The influence of the Shaw Brothers films on my work has been profound. In addition to the richness of Asian culture, we at Wu-Tang were fascinated with the struggles between the oppressed Chinese villagers and the repressive Manchu authority and how it mirrored our own experiences growing up as black kids in America's inner cities.
Rza / Music Producer
America
Asian
Authority
Black
Chinese
Cities
Fascinated
Growing Up
Influence
Oppressed
Profound
Richness
Addition
Brothers
Experiences
Films
Inner
Repressive
Struggles
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Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.
Aung San Suu Kyi / Burmese Politician
Freedom
Agree
Human Beings
Instinct
Locked
Locked Up
Long
May
Natural Instinct
Oppressed
Would Be
Time Face Long
Time Freedom Long
Free
Face
Beings
Doing
Find
Stay
Simply
Towards
However
Makes
Suddenly
Themselves
They Say
Turn
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The 'Grace of Kings' begins as a very dark, complicated world filled with injustices - among them the oppressed position of women - but gradually transforms into something better through a series of revolutions. But since real social change takes a long time, even by the end of the book, only the seeds of deep change have been planted.
Ken Liu / Fiction Writer
Book
Complicated
Dark
Filled
Grace
Long Time
Oppressed
Position
Seeds
Series
Social
Social Change
Time Change Women
Revolutions
Since
Among
Begins
Change Time Women
Gradually
Injustices
Planted
Takes
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Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.
Evo Morales / President Of Bolivia
Animal
Bolivia
Cities
Ddt
Excluded
Indian
Majority
Materials
Oppressed
Population
Raw Materials
Vermin
Wealth
Alienated
Animals
Skin
National
Raw
Whenever
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I think, overwhelmingly, Americans would agree that if you're going to come into our country, you have to accept the fact that people are allowed to practice different faiths and lifestyles, without fear of violence, without fear of being literally oppressed or subjugated. I don't think that's something any reasonable person would disagree with.
Stephen Miller /
Different Faiths
Disagree
Oppressed
Reasonable
Faiths
Lifestyles
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