“The seed of revolution is repression.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
Calvin Coolidge
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed”
John Steinbeck
“Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression”
Dick Feagler
“The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.”
Arthur Miller