Quotes About Oppression

Big brother is watching you.

— George Orwell

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Disobedience: the silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

— Ambrose Bierce

Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated.  And why wouldn’t they be?  They know best two positions: somebody’s foot on their neck or their foot on somebody’s neck.

— Florynce Kennedy

But I am pigeon-liver’d and lack gall to make oppression bitter.

— William Shakespeare