Quotes about Oppression

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

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.

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.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.

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.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

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.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

Hattaway, an insider and chronicler of the UCM, gives a picture of what the church could face in our hostile Western world: "Apparently the [Chinese] government is using a new method to deal with people when they arrest them. Instead of beating them, they are drugging them with a mind-altering chemical that diminishes the person's mental capacity."23 The Shandong Revival in China was perhaps one

We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.