"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining." —Saul Bellow on Oppression
"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." —William Penn on Oppression
"Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it." —Anna Sewell on Oppression
"First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided." —General Iberico Saint Jean on Oppression
" birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings." —Bayard Ruskin on Oppression
"The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors." —Meridel Le Sueur on Oppression
"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening.
Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand." —Simone Weil on Oppression
"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." —Hosea Ballou on Oppression
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." —Thomas Paine on Oppression
"No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed." —Clarence Darrow on Oppression
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." —Booker T Washington on Oppression
"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man." —Tacitus on Oppression
