Whichever group is in ascension at a given moment is, historically speaking, both unlikely to acknowledge the existence of abuses or bias, and also to justify the bias on any grounds they can - social, biological, what have you.
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
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Horace Greeley
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.
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Malcolm X
And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express
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Wilhelm Reich
Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for – because one...
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Suzy Kassem
I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.
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Ayn Rand
More Quotes By Elizabeth Bear
If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?
She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?"" In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.
You know, " he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology. Magic, then, and a deep form of it.
Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender.
