Quotes About Oppression

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.