| |  | | | | | | | | | | | No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. | | Joseph Addison | | | 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 out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. | | Frederick Douglass | | | 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. | | Thomas Jefferson | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 3 of 3 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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