Need help finfing a philosopher.

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<p>hey everyone, i am trying to write a paper in college and was searching for philosophers that stated something along the lines of “people will not tolerate oppression for too long and will eventualy rebel”. Searching on google , I could only find locke, but his theory seems to be based more on political oppression, whereas i was looking for an argument steming from a human perspective. basically, I was looking for examples of this phenomenon in history since the paper is about racial oppression, so i can make an argument based on this theory.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/afphil/afamres.htm[/url]”>http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/afphil/afamres.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>^ This is one of my bookmarks. It is a starting point, maybe? You need to speak with your professor more than anything else, dude.</p>

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<p>yeah thanks anyway. To be more specific, I was looking for the argument that “oppression has to end sooner or later.”</p>

<p>best.</p>

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<p>Take a gander at Georg Lukacs’ “History and Class Consciousness” and see if that helps.</p>

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<p>Racial oppression is a tough thing to pin down. Was Britain’s dominance of the Indian subcontinent racial or just colonialist/imperialist? </p>

<p>Here are some suggestions (I don’t know that you’ll find quotes, but you may)</p>

<p>MLK, Jr.
Any South African black leader
Toussaint L’Overture (not sure he actually published anything, though)
Ghandi
Thoreau (civil disobedience, potentially)
Frederick Douglas
Malcolm X</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>I was thinking John Brown.</p>

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<p>Aristotle (Politics) and Thucydides, although they dealt primarily with class differences.</p>

<p>I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who wrote that slavery was having a wolf by the ears- can’t keep holding on, but you’ll get eaten if you let go.</p>

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<p>thanks for the input everyone!</p>

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<p>Sort of out there, but it could have been Marx.</p>

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<p>We were in Venezuela a year ago and Chavez quoted Marx as saying “Socialism or death.” I love Chavez; he’s done a lot of good in Venezuela and elsewhere, but we weren’t sure about the Marx quote.</p>