The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Every person's opinion, in a way, does matter.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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