Great Nelson Mandela quote on oppressors.

"I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner........; he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as sure as I am not free when my humanity is taken from me.
The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity."

Nelson Mandela.

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Even were coercion entirely removed from the practice of the pseudo-science of "Psychiatry" - as it must be - it is still intrinsically oppressive;
and this fake discipline must also be abolished as a supposed branch of what remains of Medicine.

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Another relevant parafrased quote:

"Where people believe absurdities, they can end up committing atrocities."

Voltaire.

Racism and Psychiatry are ABSURDITIES!

"Lunatic"

Bertrand Russell and other filosofers even today often make use of terms like "lunatic", if only in rhetoric.
A problem with terms like this is that they really do have no meaning at all.
Russell in using such terms is showing that - as he always stressed - filosofers, even including him, were embedded in the culture of their times.

What I think Russell really means when he says things like "everyone other than a lunatic agrees that" - is there are certain things that he believes everyone reasonable would agree to.
Elsewhere he and others say more worrying things.

One of the only other filosofers to deal with Bertrand Russell and others' use of meaningless terms like "lunatic" is Thomas S. Szasz.

http://www.szasz.com/freeinquiry.html