Quotes About Oppression

appears that strong personal, institutional, and cultural forces work against antiracist actions on the part of White Americans who become liberated and aware of the dynamics of racism and Whiteness.

It is clear that the early founders had good intentions and meant well; they were not evil men whose conscious motivation was to oppress and dominate others.

For persons of color, dealing with bias and prejudice is a day-to-day occurrence. If Whites are to be helpful, their lives must also be a constant "have to" in dealing with racism.

It is important to understand that prejudice by people of color occurs under an umbrella of White racial superiority and supremacy. Raised in the United States, they are equally prone to inherit the stereotypes and biases of the society. Although people of color can be prejudiced and discriminate, they do not have the power to oppress on a large-scale basis (Spradlin & Parsons, 2008; Sue, 2003).

Third, many describe an emotional exhaustion of having to constantly deal with a never-ending onslaught of microaggressions and being placed in a no-win, damned-if-you-do-and-damned-if-you-don't situation.

claims of reverse racism especially on topics of affirmative action allow majority group members (Whites) to turn the tables on their accusers by implying they are now the ones being discriminated against. Although this flies in the face of all economic, educational, and employment data (APA Presidential Task Force, 2012; J. M. Jones, 1997), the focus of the debate now becomes one of portraying White Americans as the victims.

allegations of playing the race card and the pressures of political correctness are games of verbal jujitsu used by dominant group members to portray and redefine White talk as the silenced, oppressed, and dissenting voice, while back talk is portrayed as the untouchable incorrect stance that needs to be challenged.

When the infernal machine of plantation slavery began to grind its wheels, iron laws of economics came into play, laws that would lead to immeasurable suffering but would also, and equally inevitably, produce new languages all over the world – languages that ironically, in the very midst of man's inhumanity to man, demonstrated the essential unity of humanity.

Peace means nothing without freedom.

The world is a scary place, and it's only getting scarier. The American president is a narcissistic psychopath. Fascism,

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.

It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.

To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership!

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.