“What the movie is most deeply about -- it's about our own latent possibilities of repression, stereotyping and prejudice, ... To see Americans rounded up in the streets, to see Americans put into stadiums, to see people held without habeas corpus -- to have their rights violated in such a way is such a chilling and just terrifying thing to see -- that is what one takes away, I believe, from this film.”
Ed Zwick
“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.
“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
Calvin Coolidge
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“The seed of revolution is repression.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression”
Dick Feagler
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed”
John Steinbeck
