Banished Quote by John Marshall

“Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.”

— DaShanne Stokes

A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by…

— Lorraine Hansberry

Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before…

— Muhammad

As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons…

— Alexander Hamilton

The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a…

— Lysander Spooner

[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration…

— James Madison

Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must…

— Otto Schily

It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite…

— Jeff Bingaman

After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and…

— Anonymous

[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises…

— William H. Gass

To arrive is to be in prison.

— Henri Matisse