Quotes About Oppression

Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

We are the slaves of slaves

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

Todos seguían borrachos de proyectos con los reinos de caoba, de canela y de especias que todavía se escondían en las regiones inexploradas, y estaban dispuestos a macerar hasta el polvo a esos millones de criaturas sin nombre, con piel de barro y corazón de arcilla, que Dios había destinado para su servidumbre

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

advice to his children) Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.

She'd always talk about how great Gandhi was. I'd tell her the only reason Gandhi survived after his first protest was that he was dealing with the Brits. If Stalin had been running India, he'd of been dead in a second, his name forgotten.

So many small nations had been bullied into humiliating surrender, the dictators had won so many cheap victories, that idealism had been left starving....

The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

I think there is no decent American living who could have worked in our Berlin Immigration section without acquiring a deep hatred for the government which drove these people like cattle from unfriendly consulate to unfriendly consulate, from blocked border to blocked border. Nothing was too petty for the mighty German government so long as it could do some harm to a harried Jew.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

A functioning police state needs no police.

Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gallTo make oppression bitter.

And art made tongue-tied by authority.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ankle.

'Ban, 'Ban, Ca—Caliban,Has a new master—Get a new man.

This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein.

And liberty plucks justice by the nose.

William Shakespeare

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

the tax collectors found no more money to collect because there were no more people to pay the tax.