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applegrove

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Wed Sep 20, 2023, 03:09 AM Sep 2023

Jon Stewart on Threads:


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"The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor. Because that will deteriorate a society as quickly as being oppressed. And that is a real danger".

- Jon Stewart
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Jon Stewart on Threads: (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2023 OP
❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️ Lucinda Sep 2023 #1
It seems to me that once you are in a fascist setting Biophilic Sep 2023 #2
.... rdchili96 Sep 2023 #3
As a teenager reading one of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's books, summer_in_TX Sep 2023 #4

Biophilic

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2. It seems to me that once you are in a fascist setting
Wed Sep 20, 2023, 07:25 AM
Sep 2023

You are either the oppressed or an oppressor. If you aren’t actively pushing back on those doing the oppression than you are supporting and helping them.

summer_in_TX

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4. As a teenager reading one of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's books,
Thu Sep 21, 2023, 12:30 AM
Sep 2023

it struck me like a thunderbolt that the Civil Rights Movement was not just about liberating black people from oppression. It was also about liberating white people from being oppressors. I wasn't a Christian or even religious, but that resonated. My soul was being freed from a terrible sin.

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