Lee Hyeon-seo Quotes

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

We should never say that we recognize the right of these mullahs to oppress their own people.

Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers.

You agreed with the Dear Leader or you died or ended up in Camp 913.

A dictatorship breeds distrust.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

I've always hated oppression.

North Korea is not the dictator's country; it's 25 million citizens' country, and they are suffering under the dictator. North Koreans are really nice, kind, pure people. I hate the dictator and the regime, but I love my home country.

When I explain to people what was the situation in North Korea, they think, how can such a country exist? They know North Korea is bad in some vague way, not clearly. But when we explain it, they then wonder how can a whole country be modern-day slaves?

North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about the Orwellian nightmare that North Koreans face.

Assad is unquestionably guilty of the most grievous fault and has inflicted horrors upon his people.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.