William Blake Quotes on Oppression

4 quotes

  1. You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue & you cannot have Moral Virtue without the Slavery of that half of the Human Race who hate what you call Moral Virtue

  2. Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.

  3. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

  4. The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head And became a Tyrant in his stead.

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