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I think we start to tread into dangerous territory when we try to play the "I'm more oppressed than you are" game. If someone's foot is on my neck, and a lesbian feels the foot of persecution on her neck, or a jewish man feels the foot of anti-semitism on his neck, who's to say that the pressure on them is any less than my own?
I'd like to share one of my favorite quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. if I may:
"We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured."
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