Quotes about Oppression
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
- St. Augustine
Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.
- Ronald Reagan
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
- Abraham Lincoln
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.
- Barack Obama
I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.
- Muhammad Ali
Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.
- David O. McKay
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
- Henry David Thoreau
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout
- Alice Walker
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered
- Cicero
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.