Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

         Simone Weil

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

         Thomas Paine

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

         Clarence Darrow