Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.