Let’s remember in this time of rising authoritarianism one of Martin Luther King’s many important statements on oppression:
“To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor,”, King wrote in his essay “Three Ways of Meeting Oppression.”
We are obligated to resist as much as the oppressor is obligated to hear our protests. And so we resist..
Great quote from How Democracies Die. By Levitsky & Ziblatt
— “Collective abdication – the transfer of power to a leader who threatens Democracy — usually flows from one of two sources. The first is the misguided belief that an authoritarian can be controlled or tamed. The second is what sociologist Ivan Ermakoff calls “ideological collusion,” in which the authoritarian’s agenda overlaps sufficiently with that of mainstream politicians that abdication is desirable or at least preferable to the alternatives.”
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