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Oppression Quote by Iain Banks

“The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against the blaze and guaranteed their stark survival just by their earlier oppression.” quote by Iain Banks — Download Open image

““The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against the blaze and guaranteed their stark survival just by their earlier oppression.””

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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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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…

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Julie Banks Lewis

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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

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As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

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