He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Oppression Quotes
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
To the right wing ‘law and order’ is often just a code phrase, meaning ‘get the niggers’. To the left wing it often means political oppression.
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and for power – power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
As long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.
