Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.

A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2015) - ISBN: 9780684807348