Daily Inspiration Quote by Bram Fischer

Oppression doesn’t just breed resistance; it breeds a hotter, darker fuel: hatred. Bram Fischer’s line is blunt in a lawyerly way, less sermon than warning brief. He’s not romanticizing revolt. He’s describing a predictable escalation, the emotional math of mass injustice: when the majority is trapped under minority rule, the fight stops being a debate about policy and becomes a battle over dignity, survival, and humiliation. That’s where “increasing” does the real work. It implies time, accumulation, the slow stacking of daily injuries until anger curdles into something harder to steer.

The subtext is strategic as much as moral. Fischer is quietly telling those in power that repression is not a stabilizer; it’s an accelerant. Treat people as permanently disposable and they will eventually treat your institutions as permanently illegitimate. The sentence also challenges the comforting fantasy that resistance will remain polite if only the oppressed are patient or “reasonable.” It’s a rebuke to the expectation of docility.

Context sharpens the threat. Fischer, an Afrikaner advocate who defended anti-apartheid activists and was himself convicted and driven underground, understood how law can be weaponized to sanctify domination. Coming from a lawyer, the line lands as an indictment of a legal order that manufactures “peace” through coercion. He’s naming the consequence the regime pretended not to see: oppression of the many guarantees not just opposition, but an opposition increasingly willing to burn bridges rather than negotiate across them.