Wednesday 5 August 2020

Quote, unquote... on state repression








““And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” ”

John Steinbeck


““Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."”

[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
Harry S. Truman 

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