Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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Oppression can only survive through silence.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who read more
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this read more
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many read more
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; read more
First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
