Quotes About Oppression

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Rising inequality isn't about who has the knowledge; it's about who has the power.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about.

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.