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In the final words of his memoir of the Revolution, Dessalines’s secretary Adjutant-General Louis-Félix Boisrond-Tonnerre explained the lesson Haitians, and all the oppressed, should draw from Dessalines’s life.
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Marlene L. Daut, Essence, 17 Oct. 2023
Harvard’s version of DEI — the institutionalization of diversity, equality and inclusion — embraces the false Marxian insistence that all human experience, present and past, can be understood as interactions between the oppressed and those who oppress them.
—Rene J. Muller, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2024
The defendants deny the accusations, presenting themselves as crusaders using their 1st Amendment rights to stand up for the oppressed.
—Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
Sen regularly takes up against issues that bother her and is an outspoken voice for the oppressed in India against political regimes, no matter what their hue.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
More than previous pontiffs, though, the first Latin American pope has also championed human rights, seeing the downtrodden, the underdogs and the oppressed as his primary cause.
—Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
More importantly, Girard provides a structure in which conservatives—not a group usually known for their sympathy for the oppressed—can construe themselves as victims.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed—the actual oppressed.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2023
In this intersectional worldview, the fight against Israel — and often its very existence — becomes part of a global battle of the oppressed for justice and equality.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
Marlene L. Daut, Essence, 17 Oct. 2023
Harvard’s version of DEI — the institutionalization of diversity, equality and inclusion — embraces the false Marxian insistence that all human experience, present and past, can be understood as interactions between the oppressed and those who oppress them.
—Rene J. Muller, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2024
The defendants deny the accusations, presenting themselves as crusaders using their 1st Amendment rights to stand up for the oppressed.
—Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
Sen regularly takes up against issues that bother her and is an outspoken voice for the oppressed in India against political regimes, no matter what their hue.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
More than previous pontiffs, though, the first Latin American pope has also championed human rights, seeing the downtrodden, the underdogs and the oppressed as his primary cause.
—Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
More importantly, Girard provides a structure in which conservatives—not a group usually known for their sympathy for the oppressed—can construe themselves as victims.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed—the actual oppressed.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2023
In this intersectional worldview, the fight against Israel — and often its very existence — becomes part of a global battle of the oppressed for justice and equality.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
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