Quotes About Oppression

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?

The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's all about money, not freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without money, okay?

Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags,

g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor" --w.e.b. dubois

Proverbs 22:7 "The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender."Galatians 5:1 "do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them the poor would make a wonderful living.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.