Oppression Quotes

"Big Brother is watching you." "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever." "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." "The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption" "All oppression creates a state of war" "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought" "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress" "To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them" "For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees" "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion" "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy" "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral" "The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves" "Poverty is the worst form of violence"