He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.
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