Oppression Quotes & Sayings

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~ Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~

Louis D. Brandeis

~ Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. ~

Robert A. Heinlein

~ Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. ~

William Cowper

~ Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~

Robert F. Kennedy

~ The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand. ~

Unknown

~ People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ~

Emily Dickinson

~ The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths,have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people. ~

Aldous Huxley

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

~ If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. ~

Tatyana Tolstaya

~ He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong. ~

Robert Green Ingersoll

~ As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, a stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head.... The colored man alone is thrust out of the hotels of the national capital like a leper.... Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital of the United States, because the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep. ~

Mary Church Terrell

Louis D. Brandeis

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