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Oppression Quotes

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man"

"Injustice and oppression undermine hope"

"The identity of the Negro in this country is a social and political and moral crucifixion which you would find very difficult to gaze at."

"There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard."

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant"

"Poverty is the worst form of violence"

"The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption"

"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny"

"I grew up in a segregated America; I know what it feels like to be held down."

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."

"All oppression creates a state of war"

"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears"

"Lack of freedom is the biggest outlaw"

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent"

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