Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
Oppression Quotes
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time, and that is right and necessary.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Hear him, ye Senates, hear this truth sublime; He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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.
The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.
Now, Milosevic is a tyrant and a war criminal. But does America have the right to “pulverize” a nation that never attacked the United States? Did the Founding Fathers dedicate their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to the cause of liberty, so that the republic they would create could emulate the empire they overthrew? Is […]
