But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotions, and that is oppression.
Oppression Quotes
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
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.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there’s a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and for power – power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
