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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
KARL MARX, The Communist Manifesto
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.
LEO TOLSTOY, What Then Must We Do?
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
EMILY BRONTE, Wuthering Heights
The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.
If I were going to set out to oppress other people, I would surely prefer to select for my victims persons whose first response is forgiveness rather than persons whose first response is revenge.
JEFFRIE G. MURPHY, Getting Even
Death is preferable -- it is a milder fate than tyranny.
Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.
GERRY L. SPENCE, From Freedom to Slavery
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
KARL MARX, The Communist Manifesto
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