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Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper read more
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.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun read more
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.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; read more
First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
