Oppression Quotes & Sayings

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~ If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ~

~ Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. ~

Nelson Mandela

~ He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. ~

Arthur Henderson

~ If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ~

James Madison

~ America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ~

Peter Kropotkin

~ Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ We, God willing, will continue to fight you and will continue martyrdom operations inside and outside the United States until you abandon your oppression and foolish acts. ~

Osama bin Laden

~ But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression ~

John Locke

~ No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. ~

Joseph Addison

~ Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. ~

Napoleon Bonaparte

~ If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ~

James Madison

~ Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ~

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

~ We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization ~

Franklin D. Roosevelt

~ He who allows oppression shares the crime. ~

Desiderius Erasmus

~ But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression ~

John Locke

~ Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. ~

Simone Weil

~ You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. ~

Learned Hand

~ Oppression is more easily borne than insult. ~

Junius

~ Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted. ~

William Pinkney

~ Resistance to oppression is second nature. ~

Seneca

~ The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. ~

James Q. Wilson

~ Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury. ~

James H. Cone

~ In all liberation struggles it is the common people who bathe in the fire of oppression. ~

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

~ He who allows oppression, shares the crime. ~

Erasmus Darwin

~ The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism. ~

Daniel Ortega

~ All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ I am in love with this world. I have nestled lovingly in it. I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings ~

John Burroughs

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