Quotes About Oppression

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

The war is in the mountains," he said. "For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war." "Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFFs with Hitler?

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.