The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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
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
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
In all liberation struggles it is the common people who bathe in the fire of oppression.
Vellupillai Pirapakaran
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
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself
Thomas Paine
Whenever a time comes that the justice overwhelms and overcomes cruelty, it is prohibited to form negative conjectures and opinions about anyone, except when one knows it about him. But whenever a time comes that cruelty and oppression overwhelms the (quantum of) justice, then one must not have good opinions about the beneficence of a person, till such time he knows it(for sure).
al-Hadi, Ali
Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Luis BuÃ’uel
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Bible
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Desiderius Erasmus
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte