Everybody knows there is no fineness
or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down
one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
?Saul Bellow
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.
?William Penn
Now I say that with cruelty and
oppression it is everybody's business
to interfere when they see it.
?Anna Sewell
First we kill all the subversives; then, their
collaborators; later, those who sympathize
with them; afterward, those who remain
indifferent; and finally, the undecided.
?General Iberico Saint Jean
[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.
?Bayard Ruskin
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the
lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
?Meridel Le Sueur
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.
?Simone Weil
