William Butler Yeats Quote

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