„People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.“

— Emily Dickinson

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„Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.“
— Malcolm X
„People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.“
— Terry Pratchett
„Let's drink to the hard working peopleLet's drink to the salt of the earth...Raise your glass to the hard working people...Who need leaders but get gamblers instead“
— Mick Jagger
„If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.“
— Malcolm X
„We are firmly convinced that the most imperfect republic is a thousand times better than the most enlightened monarchy. In a republic, there are at least brief periods when the people, while continually exploited, is not oppressed; in the monarchies, oppression is constant.“
— Mikhail Bakunin