lick the dust of your feet then you will know that i am the lord i will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood and so on and sometimes there's an explicitconnection with monotheism so god says of several nationalities they shall come
So when he repeated himself, I realized he was speaking to me in Afrikaans, my home language and the language of the white people, the language of the oppressor in South Africa. And I heard him say over the years that when you speak to a man, it goes to his head, but when you speak to a man in his language,
but we got to give credit to Jim Webb who wrote the history of these people and taught me and you about, you know, their original fight against the oppressors in Scotland, in Ireland and their militant spirit and how they were able to bring that over here. And, you know, they got their due in Andrew Jackson and some of our other populous presidents who set us up on the road
stress disorder, which is essentially a form of post-traumatic stress disorder that comes about when people are put in situations to do things that they find morally They struggle and fight against their oppressors to the best of their ability.
giving people that benefit of the doubt and understanding that even when you disagree you don't have to otherise or be able to develop this capacity to to to help the oppressor do better and it
The apartheid regime tore people apart. And so even when he met people who had been the oppressors , and he was renowned for this, he would greet them
And understandably, even a speaker thinks, that's not how I talk, because I don't talk that way all day. But there's a tendency to think of aggression and sticking it to the oppressor , or to the man, or to your parents,
as women, life has been harder than it would be otherwise. And if a queen doesn't learn how to fight back against her oppressors , whether those oppressors are straight cops or narrow-minded or bigoted gays, then a queen is going to find it hard to survive.
I'll say for now is is that part of the spirit of monotheism as it emerged was a retribution that kind of took the form of you know not only are we going to get get these are many oppressors the many nations that have been oppressing us over the years not only are we going to get them back and punish them which which God will do come the apocalypse
more than a wild fantasy. And yet it still can boast of at least one unambiguous accomplishment. If anything Iran's Twitter revolution revealed the intense Western longing for a world where information technology is the liberator rather than the oppressor -- a world where technology could be harvested to spread democracy around the globe rather than entrench existed autocracies.
challenging not just the conventions of gender and sexuality but also how those conventions have been inherited and instituted in the legal code that was inherited by the former colonizers, the former oppressors . Which I find really interesting.
In another case of Aceh in Indonesia, where the guerrilla forces have been fighting for 30 years, the GAM. And Mandela was wise enough to realize that, instead of having contempt for his oppressors , he had to engage them to win their trust.
She was so brave. She believed in Black independence above all else, Black pride, anti-white assimilation, not depending on your oppressor by any means necessary. This was who she was.
- I have to unpack my best friend having a secret bae. Secret white-- - We met in the comment section of that "Medium" article you wrote, "Don't Fall in Love with Your Oppressor ." - That one got so many likes.
Because you can start and be like, "yo, I want to be on TV! You set up these courts, and say, well, the oppressor could come talk to the accuser." What is this about?
And as a result of that, we don't quite fit into this sacred circle that needs protecting because we are-- and it's one hop, skip, and jump from they don't need protecting to they are actually the oppressors . And I think you see that a lot.
And we were otherwise called Aleut, but we don't use that because that was given to us by our former oppressors in the late 1700s.
They can't leap in front of the king's horse like a suffragette, or go on a Salt March to defy their colonial oppressors like Mahatma Gandhi,
So I thought your point about local activists are going to be the ones who change their own country, similarly, local oppressors are doing the work too.
Part of what we all do as artists, I mean, the reason, guys we're in the middle of an election campaign, you all notice that neither of our possible oppressors -in-chief