Injustice And Oppression

Take sides. Neutrality helps

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Elie Wiesel

A nation of slaves

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression. Edward Gibbon

The poorest being that

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. Edmund Burke

The limits of tyrants

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglass

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found … Read more

Power concedes nothing without

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass

We must remember that

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom from fear and

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession – to defend it against every thrust from within or without. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Easter says to us

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness. Desmond Tutu

This is a moral

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word. Desmond Tutu