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  • “The government will fall into the hands of the few and the great. This will be a government of oppression. ”
    Melancton Smith , Smith, Melancton. Speech, New York Ratifying Convention, 21 Jun 1788. · View
  • “We have seen the mere distinction of color... a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man. ”
    James Madison , Constitutional Convention · View
  • “Power, when unchecked, soon becomes oppression. ”
    Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View
  • “The chains of despotism are forged in the fires of fear. ”
    Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View