If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political…

Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.

— Mike Fitzpatrick

The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional…

— Eileen Simpson

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

— Emma Goldman

“Misogyny is an almost inevitable byproduct of political oppression, after all, as brutalized men turn around and brutalize the next most vulnerable population.”

— G. Willow Wilson

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

— Ayn Rand

The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule… It was…

— Mao Zedong

History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human…

— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of…

— Peter Ho Davies

Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease,…

— Aberjhani

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

— Thomas Jefferson

Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the…

— Rudolf Rocker

Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

— Thomas Jefferson

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“There can be no greater motivator for evil than a huge sense of injustice!”

— Bill Ward

I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make…

— Nick Xenophon