Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
[And we see that today in the way Washington D.C. and Chicago cling to their oppressive gun laws.—Joe]
The View From North Central Idaho
Ramblings on explosives, guns, politics, and sex by a redneck Idaho farm boy who became a software engineer living near Seattle.
There you go again, applying principles as expressed by the left to situations without regard for the all-important non-situational attributes beloved by the left.
Oppression can only come from the rich and white and male and straight and christian.
MLK was paraphrasing Frederick Douglass, i think, and the point stands either way.