Oppression Quotes

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy" "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral" "The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves" "Poverty is the worst form of violence" "Nothing else tears at our freedom quite like fear" "Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them neither persons nor property will be safe" "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher" "Common sense will tell us that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us is of all others the most improper to defend us" "A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." "Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds." "Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think." "Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter" "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." "The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes" "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon" "Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called." "Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant" "The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free."