Sophie Swetchine Quotes

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

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.

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.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

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

Well, there's things that never will be right I know, And things need changin' everywhere you go

Much law, but little justice.

Much law, but no justice.

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.