ID: V from V for Vendetta saying “people should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people”

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachtsEnglish
    25·
    20 days ago

    Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

    • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      20 days ago

      …There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression…