“just as we did in the McCarthy era, we have offset the decline of traditional forms of repression with the development of new forms of repression. A historical comparison reveals not so much a repudiation as an evolution.”
David Cole
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“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 seed of revolution is repression.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed”
John Steinbeck
“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
Calvin Coolidge
“Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression”
Dick Feagler
