Quotes About Oppression

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.

If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Power is not pleasure, power is pain.

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!