Quotes about Repressive Tactics

Martin Baron

Charging a reporter with trespassing and interfering with a police officer when he was just doing his job is outrageous. This latest action represents contemptable overreaching by prosecutors who seem to have no regard for the role of journalists seeking to cover a major story and following normal practice.

Reporter Wesley Lowery was arrested in the 2014 protest demonstrations in Ferguson, MO when the police were badly mishandling the crowd control of people angry that a young black man with is hands up was shot and killed by a white officer of the almost totally segregated police force in an overwhelmingly black community. The area, was a vestige of the Jim Crow South and resented the press and especially the outside press.

Nelson Mandela

Government violence can only do one thing and that is to breed counter-violence.

Roy Bennett

There is absolutely no doubt that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF have lost the popular support of the people of Zimbabwe. And the more they become intransigent, the more they become vicious and try to repress people, the more it turns people against them, and the less chance they have of ever holding onto power.

Ernst Thalmann

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

Ray Takeyh

Iran’s sophisticated and youthful populace can be neither appeased by cosmetic concessions nor silenced by threats of coercion.

Carlos Marighella

First, the urban guerrilla must use ... violence ... to win a popular base. Then the government has no alternative except to intensify repression. The police roundups, house searches, arrests of innocent people make life ... unbearable. The general sentiment is that the government is unjust, incapable of solving problems and resorts ... to the physical liquidation of its opponents ...

Denis Leary

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

Vladimir Lenin

I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with
such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for
this reason, the better.

Repressive Tactics Quotes