Quotes About Oppression

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.