{"quotes":[{"text":"We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["civil-rights","conflict-resolution","confronting-privilege","empathy","nonviolence","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","oppression","oppressors","privilege","racism","social-justice","tension","white-privilege"],"id":82153,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.","author":"Barbara Deming","tags":["99-percent","amusing-ourselves-to-death","contructive-vs-destructive","end-of-civilization","end-of-culture","enemies","occupy-wall-street","oppression","oppressors","power","snakes-in-suits","socipaths","the-military-industrial-complex","war"],"id":85343,"author_id":"Barbara+Deming"},{"text":"People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad","castle","castles","dungeon","dungeons","edifice","edifices","food-for-thought","gain","gainful","gains","good","good-or-bad","heal","impress","impression","israelmore-ayivor","kill","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","manipulate","manipulations","manipulator","manipulators","mislead","misleader","misleaders","oppress","oppression","oppressive","oppressor","oppressors","pain","pain-and-gain","painful","pains","people","personal-development","push","self-improvement","vice","vices","virtue","virtues"],"id":89360,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["comfortable","food-for-thought","impact","influence","israelmore-ayivor","lead-people","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","misleaders","oppressive","oppressors","stand-up"],"id":146686,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Those who are most sensitive about 'politically incorrect' terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any 'oppressed' group but come from privileged strata of society.","author":"Theodore J. Kaczynski","tags":["activism","censorship","class","class-warfare","emotions-and-attitude","freedom-of-speech","gender-feminism","hypocrisy","hypocrisy-in-everyone","immigrant-experience","immigrants","insanity","insanity-is-normal","liberal-hypocrisy","liberalism","oppression","oppressors","patronization","patronizing","political-correct-crap","political-correctness","political-insanity","politically-correct","politics","politics-insanity","politics-of-the-united-states","post-feminism","privilege","sensitivity","shits-fucked-up-yo","society","society-thinking","white-privilege"],"id":164526,"author_id":"Theodore+J.+Kaczynski"},{"text":"After years of working with missionaries, I am tempted to conclude that their endeavors merely prolong a dying race's agonies for ten or twenty years. The merciful plowman shoots a trusty horse grown too old for service. As philanthropists, might it not be our duty to likewise ameliorate the savages' sufferings by hastening their extinction? Think of your Red Indians, Adam, think on the treaties you Americans abrogate \u0026 renege on, time \u0026 time \u0026 time again. More humane, surely \u0026 more honest, just to knock the savages on the head \u0026 get it over with?","author":"David Mitchell","tags":["elitism","genocide","indigenous-peoples","justification","justifying-genocide","justifying-murder","missionaries","oppressors","racism"],"id":274973,"author_id":"David+Mitchell"},{"text":"Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.","author":"Aniruddha Sastikar","tags":["civil-rights","civility","dictator","dictatorship","freedom","humanity","ideology","liberty","nation","oppressors","propaganda-government","world"],"id":295784,"author_id":"Aniruddha+Sastikar"},{"text":"Unjust social orders do no fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough number of people organize a movement powerful enough to push them down. Rarely do such revolutions emerge in a neat and morally pristine process.","author":"Timothy B. Tyson","tags":["consciences","history","oppressors","revolution","unjust-social-orders"],"id":331192,"author_id":"Timothy+B.+Tyson"},{"text":"Don't oppress, don't accept to be oppressed and you will live free.","author":"Auliq Ice","tags":["liberty","love","love","oppressed","oppression","oppressors"],"id":357085,"author_id":"Auliq+Ice"},{"text":"The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["awareness","ignorance","libration","lies","masses","oppressors","promises","tyranny","tyranny-of-majority","tyranny","war"],"id":389742,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}