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Consequences of oppression3 quotes
Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck. — Florynce Kennedy · 1970No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man, without at last finding the other end of it fastened about his own neck. — Frederick Douglass · 1883Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass · 1886Oppressor and oppressed1 quote
Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck. — Florynce Kennedy · 1970