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Quotes About Oppression

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
~ Malcolm X
We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
~ Nelson Mandela
The Supreme Court kept me from my freedom.
~ Dred Scott
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
~ Lord Acton
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
~ Millard Fillmore
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
~ Earl Warren
People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.
~ Theodor Adorno
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
~ Jimi Hendrix
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
~ Herbert Spencer
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
~ Lord Acton
Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.
~ Jose Marti
Freedom is incomplete without social justice.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.
~ Isaiah Berlin
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
~ Desmond Tutu
I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.
~ John Pugsley
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.
~ Colin Kaepernick
America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.
~ Colin Kaepernick
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
~ Bill Moyers
We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.
~ Che Guevara
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!
~ Chuck D