Oppression Quotes (page 2)
![Bram Fischer quote: "As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be..."](/pic/200699/600x316/quotation-bram-fischer-as-there-is-oppression-of-the-majority-such.jpg)
![Florynce R. Kennedy quote: "When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is..."](/pic/48119/600x316/quotation-florynce-r-kennedy-when-a-system-of-oppression-has-become.jpg)
It is *essential* to such a government, that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.
James Madison
The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public
Adam Smith
![J. M. Coetzee quote: "from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the..."](/pic/391966/600x316/quotation-j-m-coetzee-from-the-oppression-of-such-freedom-who-would-not.jpg)