Marek Edelman quotes
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“To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.”
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“Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.”
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“The Bundists did not wait for the Messiah, nor did they plan to leave for Palestine. They believed that Poland was their country and they fought for a just, socialist Poland, in which each nationality would have its own cultural autonomy, and in which minorities' rights would be guaranteed.”
-- Marek Edelman
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“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”
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Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.
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Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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“The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.”
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“To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.”
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“Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women”
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Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
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