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.

First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; read more

First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

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

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

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many read more

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.