QuoteQuest“Oppressed people deal with their oppression in three characteristic ways. One way is acquiescence: the oppressed resign themselves to their doom. They tacitly adjust themselves to oppression and thereby become conditioned to it. In every movement toward freedom some of the oppressed prefer to remain oppressed.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Martin Luther King Jr.
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
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Jr., Martin Luther King. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Martin Luther King Jr.. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
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