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A thread of #quotestoliveby. I'll keep adding to it from time to time.
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." - Steven Biko
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." - Steven Biko
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X
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“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.” - Martin Luther King Jr
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"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people." - Noam Chomsky
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“Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent among them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary.” - Oscar Wilde
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” - James Baldwin
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"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them." - Turkish proverb
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"I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want and get it." - Eugene V. Debs
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"The political solidarity of the working class means the death of despotism, the birth of freedom, the sunrise of civilization." - Eugene V. Debs
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"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice." - Harry S Truman
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"If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them." - Paul Wellstone #quotestoliveby
