The above quote comes from the inestimable Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from his seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Yet, those words written in 1963, have clearly not been successfully and fully resolved in America, despite the fact that there are plenty of laws so written, that provide equal protection as well as fair opportunity to all citizens of this great land, and further that stipulate that there shall be no discrimination based on race, sex, or previous condition of servitude; but these words ring absolutely hollow when they are not lived and breathed in the actual country that professes to believe wholly in them.
What we unfortunately have is that those that are currently oppressed are oppressed by those that have the power to do so, and further are kept in power by all those "nice people" that care not to stand tall for truth, justice, and liberty, but take instead the easy way out, by simply turning their heads away from the injustice that is clearly in evidence throughout the actions that thereby occur, every single day, in so many different ways. Because those nice people, do not apparently understand that oppression has no place in a country that professes to epitomize liberty and freedom, than that country and its people, have blinded itself; yet it must so thereby recognize, sooner or much, much later, that no country in conjunction with those that are the hidden or visible enablers to such, can have that country ever successfully continue to excel or even to exist when it does not provide justice to those that estimably deserve such.
The answer to oppression, is not now, and never will be more oppression of those that do not have a voice, for even the very stones themselves will cry out for justice; for, in truth, justice never sleeps, but patiently awaits the actuation of such, by the conscious actions of all those people that subsequently awaken from their self-induced slumber of delusion to understand finally and in totality that we are in actuality all children of equal worth, created by the very same Creator, and therefore what hurts any one of us, hurts all of us.
Those that are currently oppressed need to be provided forthrightly with the same good opportunities so taken from them by those that oppress them; of which those that are currently oppressed, have been wrongly and unjustly denied fair access so needed by them in order to have a proper opportunity to be something of merit and to live well. Those that fail to recognize the continuing danger of oppression so sanctioned by the state, fail to recognize that oppression of any kind never has a legitimate place in that country of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; of which it is quite clearly written into our incomparable Declaration of Independence that each one of us, has equally been manifested by our Creator with the very same self-evident unalienable rights. Those that are not true to that which is truth, itself -- are thereby directly or indirectly, oppressors of that truth and the most unpatriotic of citizens. In sum, we are all in this together, and therefore a people subdivided into the oppressed and the oppressors, is a country that will never rest in peace or have fair justice.