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Oppression Quotes - Page 7

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.67

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Andrew Bernstein (2005). “The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-faire”, University Press of Amer

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

"Kidnapping survivor tells of 460 days of hell". Interview with Emily Bazelon, www.stuff.co.nz. September 04, 2013.

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.13, Library of America