If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.James Madison
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.Desmond Tutu
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.Malcolm X
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.Frederick Douglass
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.Nelson Mandela
When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.Mohsin Hamid
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.John F. Kennedy
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.Simon Wiesenthal
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.George Washington
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.Martin Luther King Jr.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.Martin Luther King Jr.
Nothing has been more common in history than for victims to become oppressors when they gain power.Maya Angelou
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.Aldous Huxley
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.Alexis de Tocqueville