Quotes About Oppression

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

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.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.