Word: oppressor
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...What is logical to the oppressor is not logical to the oppressed," said Malcolm, and Negroes and whites alike could sense his disenchantment, feel his frustration. "Politicians come into a Negro community, make promises and then turn their backs," said Malcolm, and the audience could understand. "America is no longer a dream but a nightmare; there is a new tendency for Negroes to grapple with realities," said Malcolm, and all could respond, could know that he was speaking of real wrongs...
...Northerners, principally through our newspapers, gather the impression that every Southerner is ignorant, an oppressor and a bigot, while we are tolerant and understanding. We are patting ourselves on the back without justification. While discrimination against the Negro in the South is of an overt nature, here it lurks stealthily underground, and it is concealed by our hypocritical behavior...
...they could marry Negro girls. Kuamina (interracial love and scientific progress triumph in the heart of Africa) and The Blacks both tickle the liberal populace. The latter, a flood of race-hatred, contents an audience that wants to believe it would rather be oppressed than oppressor...
scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud...
...Every revolutionary," Camus declared, "ends up by being an oppressor or a heretic." Just how far his heresy would take him, he himself did not know. "If one could create a party of those who are not sure they are right," he said, "it would be mine." Yet, at last, the heavy weight of nihilism and Marxism seemed lifted. "It may be necessary to fight a lie in the name of a quarter-truth," said Camus. "That is our situation at present. The quarter-truth that Western Civilizations contain is called liberty. Without liberty it is possible to improve heavy...