Quotes About Supremacy
The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
~ Langston Hughes
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He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.
~ James Jarrell Pickle
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One who is indispensable has in his power all the lords and masters of the earth.
~ Robert Michels
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fascist leaders enjoyed a kind of supremacy that was not quite like leadership in other kinds of regime. The Führer and the Duce could claim legitimacy neither by election nor conquest. It rested on charisma,42 a mysterious direct communication with the Volk or razza that needs no mediation by priests or party chieftains. Their charisma resembled media-era celebrity "stardom," raised to a higher power by its say over war and death.
~ Robert O. Paxton
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On a broader level, white supremacy involves the way a society organizes itself, and what and whom it chooses to value.… And that's white supremacy without all the bluster: a set of practices informed by the fundamental belief that white people are valued more than others.
~ Robert P. Jones
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However, the pro–civil rights orientation of white mainline Protestant and white Catholic leaders is not an accurate barometer of the influence of white supremacy among white Christians sitting in the pews. Declarations on racial justice by national institutions and hierarchies were more often than not ignored or actively flouted by local clergy and their congregations.
~ Robert P. Jones
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it wasn't until the last two decades of the twentieth century that white Baptist historians directly faced up to the proslavery, white supremacist origins of their denomination. Robert Baker, a professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary through the first half of the twentieth century, acknowledged that "the involvement of the South in the 'peculiar institution
~ Robert P. Jones
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The historical witness is clear: as confederate symbols migrated from cemeteries and veterans' parades, they became less about honoring the past and more about upholding white supremacy in the present. In fact, the relationship is inversely proportional. The further the distance from the cemetery and the past, the more nakedly obvious their role in asserting white supremacy becomes.
~ Robert P. Jones
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The massacre of African American worshippers by a Lutheran white supremacist is not an isolated incident perpetuated randomly by a madman; It is, rather, the harvest from the seeds of racism that white Christians allowed to flourish within a culture that saw itself as God's ideal civilization, even while condoning and theologically underwriting white Christian terrorism.
~ Robert P. Jones
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~ Robert Rankin
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The [Columbus] statue is really a tribute to genocide, colonialism, religious intolerance, racism, gender violence, and white supremacy. There are mixed feelings among locals, but Taíno and other Indigenous peoples of Borikén [an Indigenous name for the island] would like to see it gone, as it is looked upon as an embarrassment.
~ Roberto Mukaro Borrero
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Me considero feminista o, por mejor decir, antisexista, porque la palabra feminista tiene un contenido semántico equívoco: parece oponerse al machismo y sugerir, por tanto, una supremacía de la mujer sobre el hombre, cuando el grueso de las corrientes feministas no sólo no aspiran a eso, sino que reivindican justamente lo contrario: que nadie resulte supeditado a nadie en razón de su sexo, que el hecho de haber nacido hombres o mujeres no nos encierre en un estereotipo
~ Rosa Montero
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Each in its own way, the five major belief systems of Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity and Islam by their nature insisted on the inferiority of women and demanded their subjection to values and imperatives devised to promote the supremacy of men.
~ Rosalind Miles
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The rights that women had won through the long century and more of struggle were essentially rights of men. Women had had no option but to batter their way into the age-old fortress of male privilege, and storm the citadel where masculine supremacy still held out.
~ Rosalind Miles
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The ideology of white supremacy was paramount in neutralizing the class antagonisms of the landless against the landed and distributing confiscated lands and properties of Moors and Jews in Iberia, of the Irish in Ulster, and of Native American and African peoples.
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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as an ideology involves much more than skin color, although skin color has been and continues to be a key component of racism in the United States. White supremacy can be traced to the colonizing ventures of the Christian Crusades in Muslim-controlled territories and to the Protestant colonization of Ireland.
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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It's a landscape that controls you, sits you down and says, Shut up, pal, I'm in charge here.
~ Russell Banks
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Ei ajattelu ole yhtään sen arvokkaampaa kuin mielikuvitus tai tunne, vaan niihin rinnastettavaa. Ajattelun ylivalta johtaa harhaan.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
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O ineluctable superiority of northernness
~ Salman Rushdie
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How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?
~ Salman Rushdie
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But what I learned from the Widow's Hand is that whose who would be gods fear no one so much as other potential deities
~ Salman Rushdie
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The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.
~ Joseph Goebbels
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Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.
~ Peggy McIntosh
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Arrogance follows distribution strength.
~ Henry Blodget
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