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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.