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"Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress."
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"In a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved."

"So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means."

"The oppressor is never as free as they think they are."

"When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression."

"When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors."

"People are stubborn and stupid. They're irrational. they're destructive. that's the point, isn't it? That's the whole reason for the cure. People will no longer destroy their own lives. They won't be capable of it."

"She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none."

"You think of killing himon the spotbut discard that thought andleave,down into the urine-stinkingelevator, they have you crucified too, America at work, where they rip out your intestinesand your brain and your will and your spirit. They suck you dry, then throw you away. The capitalist system. The work ethic. The profit motive. The memory of your father's words,"work hard and you'll be appreciated. of course, only if you make much more for them than they payyou."

"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission."

"There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious to help, so used to giving orders and to being obeyed. There he is, ever since I came into the world, possibly at his instigation, I wouldn't put it past him, commanding me to be well, you know, in every way, no complaints at all, with as much success as if he were shouting at a lump of inanimate matter."
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"Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom."

"Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution."

"If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech."
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