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.

Timothy B. Tyson

Mots clés history revolution consciences oppressors unjust-social-orders

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Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Malcolm X

Mots clés truth injustice oppression oppressors oppressed

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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

Barbara Deming

Mots clés power war enemies oppression occupy-wall-street 99-percent oppressors amusing-ourselves-to-death contructive-vs-destructive end-of-civilization end-of-culture snakes-in-suits socipaths the-military-industrial-complex

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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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Mots clés empathy oppression civil-rights privilege social-justice racism nonviolence tension conflict-resolution oppressors nonviolent-conflict-resolution white-privilege confronting-privilege

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