Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever…

Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands of those…

— John Adams

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

— John Adams

You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how…

— Patrick Henry

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

— Martin Luther King Jr

I supported the right of oppressed people to armed struggle. That didn't mean I did it.

— Susan Rosenberg

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of…

— Chinua Achebe

Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's…

— Florynce Kennedy

I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their…

— Malcolm X

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

— Henry Clay

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for…

— Ella Baker

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

— Martin Delany

Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom.

— Remi Kanazi

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it…

— Common

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

— Nancy Mairs