Quotes About Oppression

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?

O Paddy dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round?The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be seen,For there's a cruel law agin the wearin' o' the Green!

For they're hangin' men an' women there for wearin' o' the Green.

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick.

Ami, entends-tuLe vol noir—des corbeaux—sur nos plaines…Ami, entends-tuLes cris sourds—du pays—qu'on enchaine.

Sic semper tyrannis [Thus always to tyrants].

When you ask the government for freedom, the stupidity of your petition is instant proof to the latter that you have no grasp of your rights.

Up to now you have believed in the existence of tyrants. Well, you were mistaken. There are only slaves. Where none obeys, none commands.

What amazes me is how many people are happy for Saddam to stay. They ask why we don't get rid of Mugabe, why not the Burmese lot. Yes, let's get rid of them all. I don't because I can't, but when you can you should.

It is countries with no dissent, which live in the quiet of the grave, that are vulnerable and fragile.

It is from the oppression of your programming that you need to be liberated. Only then will you experience that inner freedom from which alone all social revolution must arise for the powerful emotion, the passion that arises in your heart at the sight of social evils and impels you to action, will have its origin in reality, not in your programming or your ego.

It's 1940 and no one laughs at the Hitler Youth now.

The soldiers throw a bag over whomever they want to remove, run electricity through him, and then that person is gone, vanished. Expelled to some other world.

A portrait of the führer glowers over every classroom.

A portrait of the führer glowers over every classroom. Learning happens on backless benches, at wooden tables grooved by the boredom of countless boys before them—squires, monks, conscripts, cadets.

Tyranny, he once remarked, was a delightful place, but there was no way out of it.

terrible penalty exacted on the survivors of Spartacus' final defeat: thousands were crucified

Whoever makes his journey to a tyrant's court Becomes his slave, although he went there a free man.

Give priests power and they soon start persecuting anyone who disagrees with them.

The Masque of Anarchy XC-XCI 'And these words shall then become Like Oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again—again—again— 'Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few.