Quotes about Oppression

In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

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

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free.

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind!

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.