Quotes about Oppression

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

Hattaway, an insider and chronicler of the UCM, gives a picture of what the church could face in our hostile Western world: "Apparently the [Chinese] government is using a new method to deal with people when they arrest them. Instead of beating them, they are drugging them with a mind-altering chemical that diminishes the person's mental capacity."23 The Shandong Revival in China was perhaps one

We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former

We must exercise the largest charity towards the wrong-doer that is compatible with relentless war against the wrong-doing. We must be just to others, generous to others, and yet we must realize that it is a shameful and a wicked thing not to withstand oppression with high heart and ready hand.

Tyrannical governance is unjust, since it is ordered to the private good of the ruler, not to the common good . . . And so disturbance of such governance does not have the character of rebellion . . . Rather, tyrants, who by seeking greater domination incite discontent and rebellion in the people subject to the them, are the rebels.