Quotes About Oppression

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.

I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.

To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.

The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.