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When men are oppressed it is a tragedy, when women are oppressed it is a tradition.


Bernadette Mosala

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LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN It is a lie.
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TED TURNER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
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MARJANE SATRAPI Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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LARS LEIJONBORG Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Christians think they're oppressed when they're not allowed to oppress others.
ARON RA Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation ...
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STEVEN STRAIT Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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NEHA KOTHARI Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.
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DEYTH BANGER Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
ERICA JONG Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed
ERICA JONG Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
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SUSAN CHEEVER YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
MALCOLM X The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to op...
ERIC HOFFER Women are men without money.
PAUL SAMUELSON You are more focus when you confront.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We are saying there can be no Freedom Day celebrations while there are people who are oppressed.
JACKSON SIMON It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is...
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JAMILA SHANTI Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, be...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
OGDEN NASH The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution i...
GERMAINE GREER Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
MICHAEL KORDA Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is su...
SHERYL SANDBERG Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop co...
PARKER PALMER It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
NAPOLEON HILL Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. ...
MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened ...
DESMOND TUTU You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS The oppressor will one day become the oppressed.
ANDONI GARCIA An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
HENRY CLAY A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertion...
ELIZABETH MISSING SEWELL Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.
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MELANNE VERVEER It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they ...
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PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppresse...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are af...
PLATO We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are af...
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ROSALIND COWARD The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
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That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
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