„We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.“

— Jr.

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„Ghana has something to say to us. It says to us first, that the oppressor never voluntarily gives freedom to the oppressed. You have to work for it. … Freedom is never given to anybody. For the oppressor has you in domination because he plans to keep you there, and he never voluntarily gives it up. And that is where the strong resistance comes. Privileged classes never give up their privileges without strong resistance.“
— Jr.
„Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.“
— William Faulkner
„Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.“
— Jim Butcher
„We, the disinherited of this land, we who have been oppressed so long, are tired of going through the long night of captivity. And now we are reaching out for the daybreak of freedom and justice and equality.“
— Jr.
„It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.“
— Marcus Aurelius