Quotes about Oppression
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
— George Washington
The Left wants to silence conservative Christians in the media and in the political square.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
— Malcolm X
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
— Thomas Paine
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
— St. Augustine
It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.
— Herbert Hoover
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
— Winston Churchill
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.
— Ayn Rand
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
— Edmund Burke
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
— Edmund Burke
A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.
— Frederick Douglass