Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
Quotes to Explore
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
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We are responsible for our incredulity.
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Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
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I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.
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I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.
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It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
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Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
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How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.
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Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose.
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Actually Roosevelt was identifying with Euripides—like himself, an upper-class celebrant of middle-class virtues.
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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
