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Oppression Quote by Ezra Pound

“Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.” quote by Ezra Pound — Download Open image

“Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.”

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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

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Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

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