Quotes about Oppression

From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great man cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

It is not possible for one man to hold another man down in the ditch without staying down there with him.

I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.

Where books are burned, in the end, people will eventually burn too

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Oh Lord,' inquired Isabella, 'what is this slavery, that it can do such dreadful things? what evil can it not do?' Well may she ask, for surely the evils it can and does do, daily and hourly, can never be summed up, till we can see them as they are recorded by him who writes no errors, and reckons without mistake.

And a'n't, I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen 'em mos' all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And a'n't I a woman?

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.