Quotes About Oppression

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Without freedom you cannot have real peace.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.