But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
John Locke
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
Meridel Le Sueur
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
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Unknown
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization
Franklin D. Roosevelt
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
John Locke
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed
Rose F. Kennedy
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James Baldwin
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