“People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.”
Fannie Lou Hamer
“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.
“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”
Emily Dickinson
“But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression”
John Locke
“I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight. . .”
Ella Baker
“Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint”
Abraham Lincoln
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.”
