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Quotes About Oppression

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
~ Henry A. Wallace
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
~ Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.
~ Lysander Spooner
If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.
~ Che Guevara
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
~ John Dickinson
Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.
~ Georges Danton
If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.
~ Margaret Atwood
If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.
~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.
~ Paul Keating
Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.
~ Edward Gibbon
Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
~ Victor Hugo
Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.
~ Sheikh Hasina
When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.
~ John Basil Barnhill
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
~ Wendell Phillips
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
~ William Jennings Bryan
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
~ Nigel Calder
Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.
~ Alan Keyes
The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.
~ Tom DeLay
All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?
~ Assata Shakur
Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.
~ Tim Roth
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
~ Gerry Spence
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
~ George Bernard Shaw