654 Quotes About Oppression

When governments, corporations, or other ruling institutions yield power, it is not through the goodness of their hearts. It is to save face when the people themselves have already claimed power. Of course, in theory, power can be voluntarily given away by those who already have it, but this has happened only rarely.

When liberty, reason and equality are threatened in one nation, it's a threat to the very fabric of civilization.

Gradualism veiled as hope is all too often a balm to the privileged and a poison to the oppressed.

If any dictator wanted to control a country and its people without fear up an uprising, all would have to be done is allow citizens to vote for their leaders and that alone will assure the dictator to continue to control the people, the government, and the money supply.

Let us not wait until the specter of solitude and isolation crawls into the alleys of our lives. Let us not the veiled threat of despair thrust us into oppression through our deficiency in interaction, and expand the frailty and the anxiety of our existence. Let us reach out and talk instead and use an authentic language in an unambiguous wording, and connect the dots, without fear. ("Words had disappeared”)

The notion of freedom could make even peace and order seem oppressive, generate the suspicion of some hidden purpose, some vast deceit, some unspecified crime being perpetrated beyond human ken. That was a generous way of looking at it; the alternative was to acknowledge that humans were intrinsically conflicted, cursed with acquisitive addictions of the spirit.

I affectionately know Independence Day, July 4th, as ‘Treason Day’.

If someone keep stripping away our things, rights, freedoms, then we’LP hold on to what we know.

No unfree country has ever been freed through indifference.