Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Oppression Quotes
Niggerization is the result of oppression – and it doesn’t just apply to black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotions, and that is oppression.
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time, and that is right and necessary.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Hear him, ye Senates, hear this truth sublime; He who allows oppression shares the crime.
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there’s a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
