Governmental Oppression Quotes

In Iran, education is not a given at all. For decades, in fact, the Iranian government has been systematically depriving members of the Baha'i faith their right to higher education, attempting to bar their advancement and marginalize them in Iranian society.

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.

We have seen a degradation from the highest levels of authority politically in this nation, including through the department of justice, for the rule of law.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

The real aim of land allotment in the Dawes Act was to get at the Indian lands and open them up to settlement. The provisions for the apparent benefit of the Indians are but the pretext to get at his lands and occupy them....If this were done in the name of Greed, it would be bad enough; but to do it in the name of Humanity...is infinitely worse

Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.

The powers of the present age both in government and in opposition, are, by the grace of Heaven, equally hostile to Catholics.