According to the speaker, the oppressed?
a. accept, even embrace, a life of sorrow
b. have earned the difficulties they face
c. deserve contentment, not sorrow - my answer
d. are unaware of their own suffering

"that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep."