Quotes About Oppression

If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

Karl Marx disse que a religião é o ópio do povo, mas estava errado. A religião não é o ópio do povo, ela é o incendiário do povo! Nunca o mal é feito tão bem como quando é feito em nome da religião.

Bogus fears can produce real servitude.

The surest effect of exalting government is to make it easier for some people to drag others down.

As long as rulers are above the law, citizens have the same type of freedom that slaves had on days when their masters chose not to beat them.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in imperial rhetoric, as a "civilizing mission.

A power structure that is accountable only to itself will always end by abusing the powerless. If exposed, it will ask, paternalistically, to be allowed to repair the damage on its own.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

a heavy mass of blah.

You have no right to be silenced.

You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves!

We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the wellbeing of the Palestinians.

Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

In the "lynching era," between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men and women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Roman crucifixion of Jesus. Yet these "Christians" did not see the irony or contradiction in their actions.

The cross can heal and hurt; it can be empowering and liberating but also enslaving and oppressive. There is no one way in which the cross can be interpreted. I offer my reflections because I believe that the cross placed alongside the lynching tree can help us to see Jesus in America in a new light, and thereby empower people who claim to follow him to take a stand against white supremacy and every kind of injustice.

The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God's presence in Jesus' solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. What is redemptive is the faith that God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death, and hope out of despair.

The Gospel of liberation is bad news to all oppressors because they have defined their "freedom" in terms of slavery of others.

And certainly the history of the black-white relations in this country from the Civil War to the present unmistakably shows that as a people, America has never intended for blacks to be free. To this day, in the eyes of most white Americans, the black man remains subhuman.

Unlike Europeans who immigrated to this land to escape from tyranny, Africans came in chains to serve a nation of tyrants.