Quotes about Oppression
Freedom of speech wasn't won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.
- David Starkey
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
- Frank Herbert
A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.
- Frank Herbert
It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…
- Frank Herbert
It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
- Frank Herbert
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
- Frank Herbert
When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
- Frank Herbert
the climax of their journey is a showdown with IT, the cold and calculating disembodied intelligence that has cast a black shadow over the universe in its quest to make everyone behave and believe the same.
- Madeleine L'Engle
You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
- Malcolm X
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
- St. Augustine
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
- Mahatma Gandhi