Quotes about Oppression

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

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

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

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.