Oppression Quotes

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, Bad, Silence

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

Political, Away, Vote

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Law, Rights

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy

Others, Rather, Tolerance

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Humanity, Reason, Error

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela

Experience, Beautiful, Another

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

Enemy, Fighting, Tyranny

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
Confucius

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine

Enemy, Liberty, Himself

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein

Government, End, May

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Political, After

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. Mencken

Government, Moral, Often

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Among, Dislike, Oppress

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.
Mitt Romney

Away, Progress, Hand

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson

Hard, Times, Develop

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.
Hillary Clinton

Political, Violence, Effort

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Money, Selfish, Others

All oppression creates a state of war.
Simone de Beauvoir

War, State, Creates

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X

Power, Freedom, Tyranny

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison

Legal, Authority, Heavy

He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Desiderius Erasmus

Crime, Shares, Allows

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Noah Webster

Men, War, Ambition

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn

Mind, Reason, Reading

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
James Madison

Alone, Humanity, Reason

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
Randall Terry

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov

Music, Simple, Stupidity

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Simone Weil

Give, Rise, Clearly

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
Sam Houston

May, Learn, Texas

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
John Stuart Mill

Opinion, Anyone, Act

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
King Solomon

Justice, Country, Poor

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