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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and read more
[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun read more
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper read more
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.