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I Began To Realise That We Are All Oppressed Which Is Why I Would Like To Do Something About It, Though I'm Not Sure Where My Place Is.
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I Began To Realise That We Are All Oppressed Which Is Why I Would Like To Do Something About It, Though I'm Not Sure Where My Place Is.

Understanding the Quote: "i began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why..."

This quote by John Lennon reflects deeply on the theme of not sure. It connects to the universal human journey of purpose, motivation, and reflection. Often categorized under Not Sure, Realising, Oppressed, the quote offers insight, emotional clarity, and intellectual inspiration to readers worldwide.

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Peace
Hippie
Brotherhood Of Man
I Always Read The Papers, The Political Bits.
Political
Paper
Papers
Happiness Is A Warm Gun.
Gun
Warm
The Lyrics Stand Today (1980). They're Still My Feeling About Politics. I Want To See The Plan. I Want To Know What You're Going To Do After You've Knocked It All Down. I Mean, Can't We Use Some Of It? What's The Point Of Bombing Wall Street? If You Want To Change The System, Change The System. It's No Good Shooting People.
Wall
Mean
People
Everything Is Clearer When You're In Love.
Love
Life
Happiness
Images Of Broken Light Which Dance Before Me Like A Million Eyes They Call Me On And On Across The Universe Thoughts Meander Like A Restless Wind Inside A Letter Box They Tumble Blindly As They Make Their Way Across The Universe
Eye
Light
Wind
If Everyone Could Just Be Happy With Themselves And The Choices People Around Them Make, The World Would Instantly Be A Better Place!
Inspirational
People
Choices
Surrealism Had A Great Effect On Me Because Then I Realised That The Imagery In My Mind Wasn't Insanity. Surrealism To Me Is Reality.
Inspirational
Motivational
Reality
So Long Ago, Was It In A Dream, Was It Just A Dream?
Dream
Long Ago
Long
I Just Said What I Said And It Was Wrong. Or It Was Taken Wrong. And Now It's All This.
Taken
Said
People Think The Beatles Know What's Going On. We Don't. We're Just Doing It.
Music
Ignorance
Thinking
I Realized That Kids Everywhere Go For The Same Stuff; And Seeing As We'd Done It In England, There's No Reason Why We Couldn't Do It In America Too.
Kids
America
Done
Declare It. Just The Same Way We Declare War. That Is How We Will Have Peace... We Just Need To Declare It.
Love
Life
Motivational
Only By Trying On Other People's Clothes Do We Find What Size We Are.
Inspirational
Clothes
People
At One Time I Was So Much Involved In The Religious Bullshit That I Used To Go Around Calling Myself A Christian Communist, But As Janov Says, Religion Is Legalised Madness.
Christian
Religious
Bullshit
I'd Never Met A Woman I Considered As Intelligent As Me. That Sounds Bigheaded, But Every Woman I Met Was Either A Dolly-chick, Or A Sort Of Screwed-up Intellectual Chick. And Of Course, In The Field I Was In, I Didn't Meet Many Intellectual People Anyway. I Always Had This Dream Of Meeting An Artist, An Artist Girl Who Would Be Like Me. And I Thought It Was A Myth, But Then I Met Yoko And That Was It.
Girl
Dream
Women
You Can't Give A Child Too Much Love And If You Love Somebody, You Can't Be With Them Enough. There's No Such Thing.
Children
Giving
Too Much
When Yoko [ono] And I Got Married, We Got Terrible Racialist Letters - You Know, Warning Me That She Would Slit My Throat. Those Mainly Came From Army People Living In Aldershot. Officers.
Army
People
Warning
As A Child I Did A Lot Of Imaginary Bits, You Know. It Depends On The Individual, I Enjoyed Then Knocking The Nail In, I Enjoy Knocking Nails In Walls To Hang Pictures Up, But I Also Enjoy Thinking 'i'm Gonna Do That' But I Actually Won't Do It, I Enjoy Imagining Doing Things Just As Much.
Children
Wall
Thinking
You Either Get Tired Fighting For Peace, Or You Die.
Love
Life
Motivational
If We Took Over Britain, Then We'd Have The Job Of Cleaning Up The Bourgeoisie And Keeping People In A Revolutionary State Of Mind.
Jobs
People
Mind
There Are Places I'll Remember All My Life Though Some Have Changed Some Forever Not For Better Some Have Gone And Some Remain All These Places Have Their Moments With Lovers And Friends I Still Can Recall Some Are Dead And Some Are Living In My Life I've Loved Them All
Life
Forever
Popular Song
No Longer Riding On The Merry-go-round, I Just Had To Let It Go.
Let It Go
Riding
Merry Go Round
There Is No Problem Only Solutions
Problem
No Problem
Solutions
When I Was About Twelve I Used To Think I Must Be A Genius, But Nobody's Noticed. If There Is Such A Thing As A Genius, I Am One, And If There Isn't I Don't Care.
Inspirational
Thinking
Twelve
I Hope Someday You Will Join Us And The World Will Live As One.
Teamwork
Dream
Hope
You Don't Need Anybody To Tell You Who You Are Or What You Are. You Are What You Are!
Love
Life
Happiness
Music's All Right John, But You'll Never Make A Living Out Of It.
Music
I Don't Believe In Elvis I Don't Believe In Zimmerman I Don't Believe In Beatles I Just Believe In Me.
Believe
Zimmerman
Believe In Me
It Came In A Vision - A Man Appeared On A Flaming Pie And Said Unto Them, 'from This Day Forward You Are Beatles With An A.' Thank You Mister Man, They Said, Thanking Him.
Men
Thanking Him
Pie
I Had A Lot Of It In My Day, But I Don't Like It. It's A Dumb Drug. Your Whole Concentration Goes On Getting The Next Fix. I Find Caffeine Easier To Deal With.
Drug
Dumb
Goes On
I Can't Speak For George, But I Pretty Damn Well Know We Got Fed Up Of Being Sidemen For Paul.
Speak
Feds
Damn
A Working Class Hero Is Something To Be.
Hero
Class
Labor
Why In The World Are We Here? Surely Not To Live In Pain And Fear. Why On Earth Are You There, When You're Everywhere - Come And Get Your Share.
Inspirational
Motivational
Pain
That's The Choice They Allow You - Now The Outlet Is Being A Pop Star, Which Is Really What I'm Saying On The Album In 'working Class Hero'. As I Told Rolling Stone, It's The Same People Who Have The Power, The Class System Didn't Change One Little Bit.
Stars
Hero
Class
Don't Need A Gun To Blow Your Mind
Blow
Gun
Mind
Whenever In Doubt, Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, And Float Downstream.
Dmt
Mind
Relax
I Just Like Tv. I Think To Me, It Replaced The Fireplace When I Was A Child. They Took The Fire Away And They Put A Tv In Instead And I Got Hooked On It.
Children
Thinking
Fire
All The Revolutions Have Happened When A Fidel Or Marx Or Lenin Or Whatever, Who Were Intellectuals, Were Able To Get Through To The Workers. They Got A Good Pocket Of People Together And The Workers Seemed To Understand That They Were In A Repressed State.
People
Together
Pockets
The Main Hangup In The World Today Is Hypocrisy And Insecurity. If People Can't Face Up To The Fact Of Other People Being Naked Or Smoking Pot, Or Whatever They Want To Do, Then We're Never Going To Get Anywhere. People Have Got To Become Aware That It's None Of Their Business And That Being Nude Is Not Obscene. Being Ourselves Is What's Important. If Everyone Practiced Being Themselves Instead Of Pretending To Be What They Aren't, There Would Be Peace.
People
Hypocrisy
Smoking
Life Is What Happens While You Are Busy Making Other Plans.
Inspirational
Funny
Life
It's Like Being Possessed: Like A Psychic Or A Medium. I Felt Like A Hollow Temple Filled With Many Spirits, Each One Passing Through Me, Each Inhabiting Me For A Little Time And Then Leaving To Be Replaced By Another.
Psychics
Leaving
Littles
You May Say I'm A Dreamer, But I'm Not The Only One
Inspirational
Dream
Hope
I Was A Great One As A Kid For Standing And Just Looking Out A Window For Hours And Hours And Hours. Now The Tv Does That For Me, Except For The View Changes Immensely.
Kids
Views
Doe
You Don't Have To Be A Star To Get A Cheese Sandwich. You Just Have To Be First.
Stars
Cheese Sandwiches
Firsts
Strawberry Fields Is Anywhere You Want To Go
Want
Fields
Strawberries
I Suppose If I Had Said Television Was More Popular Than Jesus, I Would Have Gotten Away With It. I'm Sorry I Opened My Mouth. I'm Not Anti-god, Anti-christ, Or Anti-religion. I Wasn't Knocking It Or Putting It Down. I Was Just Saying It As A Fact And It's True More For England Than Here. I'm Not Saying That We're Better Or Greater, Or Comparing Us With Jesus Christ As A Person Or God As A Thing Or Whatever It Is. I Just Said What I Said And It Was Wrong. Or It Was Taken Wrong. And Now It's All This.
Jesus
Sorry
Taken
You Say You Want A Revolution? Well, You Know. We All Want To Change The World.
World
Want
Revolution
In England, There Are Only Two Things To Be, Basically: You Are Either For The Labor Movement Or For The Capitalist Movement. Either You Become A Right-wing Archie Bunker If You Are In The Class I Am In, Or You Become An Instinctive Socialist, Which I Was.
Class
Wings
Two
Peace And Love Are Eternal.
Peace
And Love
Peace And Love
The World Is Still Spinning And So Are We And So Are You. When The Spinning Stops - That'll Be The Time To Worry. Not Before.
Worry
World
Spinning
I Am Going Into An Unknown Future, But I'm Still All Here, And Still While There's Life, There's Hope.
Unknown Future
Stills
I Can't Remember Anything Without A Sadness So Deep That It Hardly Becomes Known To Me, So Deep That Its Tears Leave Me A Spectator Of My Own Stupidity.
Sadness
Stupidity
Tears
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