Oppression sayings

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◆ As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

- William O. Douglas99

◆ The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie99

◆ The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

- Gore Vidal99

◆ And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare.

- Malcolm X99

◆ Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

- Wally Lamb99

◆ Liberate yourself with the idea that you can be free from the chains of oppression.

- Jeremy Limn99

◆ Woe is the man who uses fear and oppression to bear the heart of an opened mind.

- Jeremy Limn99

◆ A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

- 99

◆ You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

- Abrham Lincon99

◆ One of the hardest things to do, is control someone. One of the worst things, is succeeding at it.

- Tyler Bowen99

◆ If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, thats just what Ill do. Its this kind of regard for others that makes me believe Id be a good politician.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ I wish I was a mirror, that every rude thing done to me or every careless word I hear would just bounce back to those people-as fierce as how I've received them.

- Meow Opre99

◆ If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy

- James Madison99

◆ But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

- John Locke99