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- He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose, in one of thy gates where it liketh him best: thou shall not oppress him." - "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus", American Anti-Slavery Society.
- Some, having their minds preoccupied with heavier grief, considered the recent loss of cavalry trifling, in comparison with their former losses; others did not estimate what had occurred by itself, but considered that, as in a body already labouring under disease, a slight cause would be felt more violently than a more powerful one in a robust constitution, so whatever adverse event befell the state in its then sickly and impaired condition, ought to be estimated, not by the magnitude of the event itself, but with reference to its exhausted strength, which could endure nothing that could oppress it. - "The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six", Titus Livius.
- Let the laws which oppress the poor and friendless now apply to the proud and powerful. - "A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike", Charles King.