Quotes About Oppression

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.

It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

Everybody's got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don't got is power.

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.

It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.

Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

A slave is but half a man.