Quotes About Oppression

It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

God is more lasting than the white man.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!

A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!

I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.