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Oppressed Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
- It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than…
- The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
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