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Quotes About Oppression

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
~ John Lindsay
Force is the weapon of the weak.
~ Ammon Hennacy
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
~ Eugene V. Debs
During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.
~ John Pilger
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
~ Eduardo Galeano
Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
~ Stephen A. Douglas
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
~ Albert Camus
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
~ Richard Perle
War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.
~ Vladimir Lenin
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
~ Oscar Wilde
The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.
~ John C. Calhoun
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?
~ Howard Zinn
Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.
~ Andrew Jackson
War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
~ Simon Bolivar
"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!
~ Madame Roland
A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
~ Georg Buchner
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
~ Voltaire
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
~ Daniel Goleman