Thread by @Owaahh

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
― Frederick Douglass

“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”
― Gore Vidal

“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Everyone who is not happy must be shot.”
― John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl