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Letter "O" » Oppression
«But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Oppression
| Keywords:
commotion, gathers, oppression, seditious
«No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Oppression
| Keywords:
exorbitance, heavy, inflicted, lasting, legal, oppression, perversion, perversions
«Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Freedom,
Oppression,
People,
Rights
«Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.»
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