Quotes About Oppression

we must reckon with the plague of police brutality and how it has ravaged Black communities for three centuries. The cops remain in large part violent enforcers of white supremacy.

Those closer to home have been lashed in the face by a nation that praises white hustle but despises such agency in their darker kin.

Instead, we are two symbols in a 400-year-old battle of guilt and innocence.

Martin Luther King, Jr. hoped for a color-blind society, but only as oppression and racism were destroyed.

Whites must understand that they benefit from white privilege in order to realize how white privilege creates the space for black oppression.

Slavery casts a long shadow across our lives. The spoils we reaped from forcing people to work without wages and treating them with grievous inhumanity continue to haunt us in a racial gulf that seems impossible to overcome.

We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural fascism and vicious narratives of racial privilege and superiority that tear at the fabric of "e pluribus unum.

The status quo always favors neutrality which in truth is never neutral at all but supports those who stand against change.

Race makes class hurt more.

Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.

There is no such thing as "people power" (democracy). The world is run by oligarchs for oligarchs. You have all been conned. You are all slaves of capitalism. You are ruled by a psychopathic elite just as your ancestors were. Nothing has changed, except the tactics of the elite. The weak, passive, submissive masses still go on being ruled by an elite few. They love it!

Our way of life is inherently based on masters and slaves. We bow to assorted Gods, like slaves bowing to masters. We bow to monarchs and presidents, to the rich, to celebrities. We never tire of bowing to others and getting on our knees. We are controlled at every turn. Isn't it time to unshackle ourselves, to stand up straight for once? Isn't it time to bring an end to the master-slave dialectic?

As royalty, celebrities and the rich have always known, a smile is the most subtle and satisfying way of shitting on the inferior.

Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.

Power cannot survive when its subjects free themselves from fear.

most people since the dawn of human time have been simply programmed by their birth to a short and brutish life that is not shaped by them or anyone else.

The function of propaganda is to make evil look good, the demonic divine, violence like peacemaking, tyranny and oppression like liberation. It makes blind, unquestioning allegiance appear to be freely chosen, religiously appropriate devotion.

Ungenerous to the losers and oppressive to the winners, merit becomes a tyrant.

Tienen la sensación de que ellos son más víctimas de discriminación que las mujeres o las minorías raciales y se sienten oprimidos por las exigencias del discurso público de lo «políticamente correcto».

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

It was all about size now: the big ran the world on the sweat of the small, and if the big faltered for any reason, the small were the first to go.

People will say with a straight face that having one choice for dear leader is tyranny – but having two is freedom.

through the centuries men have formed concepts designed to check and limit the exercise of State rule; and, one after another, the State, using its intellectual allies, has been able to transform these concepts into intellectual rubber stamps of legitimacy and virtue to attach to its decrees and actions.

I hated what this country had become and wanted nothing more than to hold up a mirror so its citizens could see it for what it truly was, not the Land of Opportunity for which our forefathers fought and died, but as the fascist regime that served to funnel the money upward from those most in need into the pockets of those who would see them all starve in the streets, the same men who took away their livelihoods and stranded them in a city rotting beneath their very feet.