Rodrigo Duterte Quotes

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

Hate numbs the judgment, paralyzes the vitals of democracy.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Repression or oppression never yet succeeded in crushing the truth or redressing a wrong.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's actually nonsense.

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

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you at night.

Enemy of the People

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Evil or atrocity often explodes from a furnace built from the steady accretion of small, unchallenged wrong.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion

Three Whom God Should Not Have Created: Persians, Jews, and Flies