Quotes about Oppression

This is because having to obey one concept of right is inherently unjust. God has given each of us a unique sense of right, so when we are forced to live under someone else's for years and years, we run the risk of losing our own. But not everyone can be crushed. Sooner or later the longing for freedom is bound to assert itself.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die.

About the same time one Purderve was put to death, for saying privately to a priest, after he had drunk the wine, "He blessed the hungry people with the empty chalice."

At Buckingham, Thomas Bainard, and James Moreton, the one for reading the Lord's prayer in English, and the other for reading St. James' epistles in English, were both condemned and burnt alive.

And all this to be done on pain of death, and confiscation of house and goods, unless within the limited time they turned Roman catholics.

Rawlins was carried again to Cardiff, to a loathsome prison in the town, called Cockmarel, where he passed his time in prayer, and in the singing of Psalms.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.