Quotes About Oppression

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

Women have no government.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny