Quotes About Oppression

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.