Quotes About Oppression

I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

The price of freedom is death.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.