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.

[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and read more

[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

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.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

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.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.