Quotes About Subjugation

Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.

Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.

Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

We are the slaves of slaves

Todos seguían borrachos de proyectos con los reinos de caoba, de canela y de especias que todavía se escondían en las regiones inexploradas, y estaban dispuestos a macerar hasta el polvo a esos millones de criaturas sin nombre, con piel de barro y corazón de arcilla, que Dios había destinado para su servidumbre

And art made tongue-tied by authority.

'Ban, 'Ban, Ca—Caliban,Has a new master—Get a new man.

In practice, often 12 political officers, 100 British soldiers, and 800 paramilitary personnel controlled 10 million people, with the nearest regular force lying 1,000 miles away. From 1924 to 1937, 10,000 regular personnel and 200 aircraft controlled half the Middle East; 8,000 colonial troops governed British Africa; and only 45,000 European soldiers garrisoned India. Never

The slavemaster took Tom and dressed him well, and fed him well, and even gave him a little education -- a little education; gave him a long coat and a top hat and made all the other slaves look up to him. Then he used Tom to control them. The same strategy that was used in those days is used today, by the same white man.

They controlled it so tight -- they told those Negroes what time to hit town, how to come, where to stop, what signs to carry, what song to sing, what speech they could make, and what speech they couldn't make; and then told them to get out town by sundown. And everyone of those Toms was out of town by sundown. Now I know you don't like my saying this. But I can back it up. It was a circus, a performance that beat anything Hollywood could ever do, the performance of the year.

How can you say that princes have the greatest power of subduing their enemies, when they are sensible that all are their enemies, who are subject to their rule?

Everybody in the south," wrote Douglass, "wants the privilege of whipping somebody else.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.

C'est pour l'amour de la liberté qu'il devient « nègre » et se réduit en esclavage : pendant des années, son génie et son nom resteront invisibles dans les ténèbres de la sous-littérature

it is much the same, I daresay, wherever and whenever men desire power and the use of power on others.

Women are not allowed truth, not allowed speaking roles, not allowed to be precise.

The Hegelian dynamic plays out daily on and off the film sets - women are not lesser beings, but because they are assumed to be, they are subjected to inferior conditions. And this inferiority projects itself through the feeling of weakness and subjugation.

Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were inherently subordinate beings; they were used to make slavery acceptable and to make black subjugation more palatable.

Our modern understanding of cultural appropriation is highly individualised. It's all about what Halloween costume you wear, or who's cooking biryani. But the way in which the idea was first used was to describe a relationship of dominance and exploitation between a global ruling class and a globally subjugated one.

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.

Technology is like the 666 because it controls us.