“Ridicule first, then shame and condescension are the weapons and ammunition - in the mental manipulation and psychological terrorism of the oppressed. Self-esteem, truth and fellowship among peers are their able defenses - in a counter-attack on the lies: of fear, inferiority and a mandatory deference - intended by the oppressors.”
Mike E. Knezevich, Jr.
“Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.”
Malcolm X
“Bearing false witness is not just one of the Ten Commandments. The Bible has numerously repeated warnings against slander, false testimony and just plain old lying. Interestingly, it has been a socially acceptable form of oppressing minorities and the poor for centuries: slander, sensationalism, hearsay, innuendo, half-truths, insinuations, rumors, myth, and outright lies. We should learn these words, and call it what it really is . . .”
“He who wants to safeguard His liberty, needs not only to shield His own, but He must shield His enemy's. For He who intrudes on His enemy's liberties, becomes equivalent to the one He escaped from.”
Anthony I. Lane
“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
