~ Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I've worked with my best friends in direct competition ~
~ The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. ~
~ No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. ~
~ A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ~
~ The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. ~
~ Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. ~
~ There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed ~
~ One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression ~
~ Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. ~
~ The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important. ~