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Oppression Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever…
- If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the…
- A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their…
- But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized…
- If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is…
More Oppression Quotes
- The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render… — Hosea Ballou
- In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was… — Gerry Adams
- All oppression creates a state of war. — Simone de Beauvoir
- No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison
- Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I… — Harry Belafonte
- Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. — Harry Belafonte
- I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to… — Theodore Bikel
- Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis
- Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown
- God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. — Luis Bunuel
- In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke