4 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Oppression

Orson Scott Card quotes on oppression

447. What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because [they] force us or because we're afraid they might force us?

693. We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners

793. If they were servants by nature,' said colon, ' you wouldn't have to beat them to get them to obey.

835. The river was pure treachery, so smooth on top, the water so cool on a hot day, and yet there was death in it, murder in it's heart. Like the Egyptians. Such a darling child, they would say, and pat her head. And Miriam would answer in her heart : you made my father a slave. You want us all dead. You are the river, you and all of Egypt. You are the river and as long as we stay beside you we are in danger of drowning