Carl Sagan, J.K. Rowling, and Frederick Douglas all spoke on the oppression of others. They each made excellent yet different points on the effect of oppression. Sagan stated that “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” On the other hand, in J.K. Rowling’s novel Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, she wrote that "Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants do everywhere! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!” Similarly, Fredrick Douglas proclaimed that "Where …show more content…
Rowling mentioned oppression from the bamboozler’s point of view. She expressed that "Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants do everywhere! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!” I found this quote very interesting and shockingly quite true. Many leaders and people in general who have some type of control throughout history and in today’s world fear the rebellion of those they oppress. For example, during the Russian Revolution, Joseph Stalin allowed for religious tolerance amongst Russia to reduce the chances of the citizens rebelling (rationalrevolution.net). Also, slave owners in early America feared the revolt of slaves. They executed any slave they found trying to escape, in hopes to bring fear to other slaves who may have thought about rebelling. These are just a few scenarios of Rowling’s