The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Oppression Quotes
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.
In the memory of oppression, oppression peretuates itself. The scar does the work of the wound. That is the real tragedy: that injustice retains the power to distort long after it has ceased to be real. It is a posthumous victory for the oppressors, when pain becomes a tradition. This is the unfairly difficult dilemma […]
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.
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
