Quotes on Political Oppression

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

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.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.