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Quotes About Subjugation

He must master or be mastered;
~ Jack London
a multitude destitute of will and of the means of resistance, but profitable in the utmost degree to the exchequer.
~ Jacob Burckhardt
If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Fear can be used in all sorts of ways to control people, and that's what he's done." They took a few
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor. Now, however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.
~ James Allen
For the past five thousand years, people have been largely enslaved by a few select masters who understood how violence, religion, communication, debt, and class warfare all work together to subjugate a large group of people.
~ James Altucher
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
~ James Baldwin
But in order to deal with the untapped and dormant force of the previously subjugated, in order to survive as a human, moving, moral weight in the world, America and all the Western nations will be forced to reëxamine themselves and release themselves from many things that are now taken to be sacred, and to discard nearly all the assumptions that have been used to justify their lives and their anguish and their crimes so long.
~ James Baldwin
In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be outwitted in any way whatever. And those virtues preached but not practiced by the white world were merely another means of holding Negroes in subjection.
~ James Baldwin
They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be outwitted in any way whatever. And those virtues preached but not practiced by the white world were merely another means of holding Negroes in subjection.
~ James Baldwin
all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and humiliating needs. One
~ James Baldwin
Without terror how can the few rule the many?
~ James Clavell
NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation.
~ Sergei Lavrov
There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.
~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
~ Margaret Fuller
ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear
~ Susan Brownmiller
One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.
~ Hugh Hefner
Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.
~ F. Sionil Jose
The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.
~ Steven Biko
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
~ Lord Acton
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
~ Joseph Addison
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
~ Aristotle