Quotes about Oppression
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.
- Thomas Paine
Your life begins to end the moment you start being silent about the things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
- Margaret Atwood
There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
- Margaret Atwood
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
We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
- Nelson Mandela
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
- Millard Fillmore
Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.
- William Wallace
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
- Euripides
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
- Frederick Douglass
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.