Quotes about Oppression

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free.

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind!

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.

They sat contemplating towns to come and the poor fanfare of trumpet and drum and the crude boards upon which their destinies were inscribed for these people were no less bound and indentured and they watched like the prefiguration of their own ends the carbonized skulls of their enemies incandescing before them bright as blood among the coals.

And of course it shouldnt come as a surprise to find that people in rubber rooms have a worldview at odds with that of the people who put them there.

Glanton could see crouched in a corner a Mexican or halfbreed boy maybe twelve years old. He was naked save for a pair of old calzones and makeshift sandals of uncured hide. He glared back at Glanton with a sort of terrified insolence.