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dbc0726 | The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me? No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it liveable? What's going on in the political prisons? | opression | Marjane Satrapi | |
d5a8f32 | We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. | opression | Martin Luther King Jr. |