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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.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will read more
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.
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.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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.
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.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
