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• You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it… — James A. Baldwin
• The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. — Steven Biko
• The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus
• Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. — Emile M. Cioran
• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life. — Anne Lamott
• The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of… — Cesar Chavez
• A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela
• If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast. — John Greenleaf Whittier
• We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator.… — Malcolm X

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