"Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”

“Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.”

“Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.”

“Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.”

“Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.”

“Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.”

“The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house slave said, well one of these days all of us will live in the plantation, they said, uh huh. They went along with him. But if you came up to them and said, let's go, they would be gone just like that.And in, in America you have the same situation.You have the vast masses who are still slaves.”

“In USA, a black man only have like five years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong, while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. 'Cause once you turn 30, it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man, in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more.”

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”