William Lemke Quotes

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

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

There is not a criminal in a European jail, nor a cannibal in the South Sea Islands, whose indignation would not rise at the recital of what has been done.

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

I've always hated oppression.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

The world is an enormous injustice.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy in misfortune.

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

Coalitions are but the unjust subjection of one people to another.

Necessity, the tyrant's plea.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.

Those who have by an unrighteous power made merchandise of the earth, giving all to some, & none to others, declare themselves tyranicall & usurping.

The tyranny we impose on others, we will eventually impose on ourselves.

Those who exercise power always arrange matters so as to give their tyranny the appearance of justice.

… most accursed, wicked, barbarous, cruel, unnatural, unjust and diabolical.

The highest law is often the greatest wrong..

Unjust rule never lasts continually over time