<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Oppression - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66419]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45160]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45161]]></link><description><![CDATA[No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45162]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45163]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45153]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45155]]></link><description><![CDATA[First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45156]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45158]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45159]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppression can only survive through silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppression can only survive through silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45148]]></link><description><![CDATA[No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45151</guid></item></channel></rss>