(160 quotes found)
“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
Noah Webster
“Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.”
Anna Sewell
“The more man clings to religion, the more he believes. The more he believes, the less he knows. The less he knows, the more stupid he is. The more stupid, the easier he can be governed! The easier to govern, the better he may be exploited. The more exploited, the poorer he gets. The poorer he gets, the richer and mightier the domineering classes get, the more riches and power they amass, the heavier their yoke upon the neck of the people.”
Johann Most
“Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint”
Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.”
Learned Hand
“People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.”
Fannie Lou Hamer
“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”
Louis D. Brandeis
“The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.”
Wendell Phillips
“Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I've worked with my best friends in direct competition”
Diane Sawyer
