Alot is been said all over campuses about the struggles for the welfarism of the Greatest Nigerian Students, perhaps because elections are fast approaching. While I will prefer to see men act the great words they speak, I think the piece below is worth sharing.
OF A TRUTH I BELIEVE THAT, THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IS RESPONSIBILITY. We must consciously take upon us the responsibility to know our rights and privileges, and most importantly deploy a resilient spirit and method in challenging the shameful oppression that bedevil us as youthful Nigerians.
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Segun Shuaib wrote this on OVERTNIGERIA.
"Oppressed people deal with their oppression in three characteristic ways. One way
is acquiescence: The oppressed resign themselves to their doom. They tacitly adjust
themselves to oppression, and thereby become conditioned to it. In every movement toward freedom some of the oppressed prefer to remain oppressed. Almost 2,800 years ago Moses set out to lead the children of Israel from the slavery of Egypt to the freedom of the promised land. He soon discovered that slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves.
They would rather gear those ills they have, as Shakespeare pointed out, than flee to
others that they know not of. They prefer the “fleshpots of Egypt” to the ordeals of
emancipation.
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. A few years ago in the slum areas of Atlanta, a Negro guitarist used to sign almost daily: “Been down so long that down don’t bother me.” This is the type of negative freedom and resignation that often engulfs the life of the oppressed.
But this is not the way out. To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with
that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor.Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber... Yours in Struggle
Comrade Segun Shuaib Abdullahi"
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OF A TRUTH I BELIEVE THAT, THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IS RESPONSIBILITY. We must consciously take upon us the responsibility to know our rights and privileges, and most importantly deploy a resilient spirit and method in challenging the shameful oppression that bedevil us as youthful Nigerians.
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Segun Shuaib wrote this on OVERTNIGERIA.
"Oppressed people deal with their oppression in three characteristic ways. One way
is acquiescence: The oppressed resign themselves to their doom. They tacitly adjust
themselves to oppression, and thereby become conditioned to it. In every movement toward freedom some of the oppressed prefer to remain oppressed. Almost 2,800 years ago Moses set out to lead the children of Israel from the slavery of Egypt to the freedom of the promised land. He soon discovered that slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves.
They would rather gear those ills they have, as Shakespeare pointed out, than flee to
others that they know not of. They prefer the “fleshpots of Egypt” to the ordeals of
emancipation.
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. A few years ago in the slum areas of Atlanta, a Negro guitarist used to sign almost daily: “Been down so long that down don’t bother me.” This is the type of negative freedom and resignation that often engulfs the life of the oppressed.
But this is not the way out. To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with
that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor.Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber... Yours in Struggle
Comrade Segun Shuaib Abdullahi"
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