Quotes About Subjugation

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Dazzled as he was, Cortés was also aware that with a single command Motecuhzoma could order his army "to obliterate all memory of us." The Spaniards counteracted this threat by inventing a pretext to seize the tlatoani in his own palace, making him first their captive and then their puppet.

For each European, the colony had more than twenty-five Africans.

there is nothing that frightens that man more than a woman who does not live happily under a man's thumb.

the Christian Right and radical Islamists, although locked in a holy war, increasingly mirror each other. They share the same obsessions. They do not tolerate other forms of belief or disbelief. They are at war with artistic and cultural expression. They seek to silence the media. They call for the subjugation of women. They promote severe sexual repression, and they seek to express themselves through violence.

But then the Christian Right and radical Islamists, although locked in a holy war, increasingly mirror each other. They share the same obsessions. They do not tolerate other forms of belief or disbelief. They are at war with artistic and cultural expression. They seek to silence the media. They call for the subjugation of women. They promote severe sexual repression, and they seek to express themselves through violence.

If you have the power to put a stop to subjugation, yet look the other way while it happens, then you have done it yourselves

for it has always been law that the weaker should be subject to the stronger.

But it would be more precise to say that the master aimed to transform the slave into an automaton by obliterating his sense of personhood.

They are a terrible enemy, Eli," Vah'nya said. "Your Empire—your former Empire—forces its will on its slaves through soldiers and weapons and warships. But the Grysks…three can command a nation. A hundred can rule an entire world. Billions of beings, their hearts and souls broken, ready to fight and die at the order of a handful of aliens. No resistance, no revolt, no dissent, no hope.

Then they had grown. Edging into life from the back door. Becoming. Everybody in the world was in a position to give them orders. White women said, "Do this." White children said, "Give me that." White men said, "Come here.

Cuba must be ours," declared Mississippi senator Jefferson Davis. He also wanted the Yucatán peninsula, so that the Gulf of Mexico would become "a basin of water belonging to the United States." His fellow Mississippian, Senator Albert Brown, coveted Central America. "I want these countries for the spread of slavery," he said. "I would spread the blessings of slavery, like the religion of our Divine Master, to the uttermost ends of the earth.

Every woman knows what I'm talking about when I say girls grow up with a desire to please, to cede their power to other people. . . everyone knows about the sometimes aggressive and manipulative ways men often exert power in the world, and how by using the word empowered to describe women, men are simply maintaining their own power and control.

Overholding the vision, no matter how applaudable the vision may be, makes us prone to missing the vision God inspires within others for mission and witness. Moreover, unconsciously subjugating the vision of others leads to ministry with a heavy hand, the goal being to implant our vision of faithfulness on others.

what American thinkers have labeled Chinese expansionism is more accurately explained by China's obsession—informed by its long and painful history of subjugation and invasion—with securing its borders by "consolidat[ing] [its] relationships with its neighboring states.

even the idyllic garden of Eden was a war zone. The command to rule and subdue put God's image bearers on high alert that fierce resistance lay ahead.

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

The problem of holding the Negro down, therefore, is easily solved. When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his "proper place" and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.

When you control a man's thinkng you do not have to worry about his actions, You do not have to tell him not to stand he or go yonder . he will find his 'proper' place and will stay in it. You do not have to send him to the back door. he will go without being told

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his "proper place" and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

When Homo sapiens came along, after all, the Neanderthals had a hard time, and virtually all animals were subdued. The lucky ones became pets, the unlucky lunch.

Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." (Orwell, "1984")