Quotes About Exploitation

What happened next was an amazing testament to the ongoing power that the Dalai Lama exercises in Tibet. The travelers returned to Tibet, and many of them immediately burned their tiger skins, even though they were worth approximately two years' wages apiece. By this act, they honored the Dalai Lama's edict to end the exploitation of Asia's tigers.

What most upset her, was the widespread use of slave labor. ...It is true Republicanism that drives the slaves half fed, and destitute of clothing...to labor...while the owner walks about idle...white men considered idleness a virtue even if they owned only one slave or none. No white man would do work considered too menial for his race.

there is no difference…between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the latter, denies a man's ownership of himself and the products of his labor; and asserts that other men may own him, and dispose of him and his property, for their uses, and at their pleasure."

You were useful... But just because you're useful to the wealthy doesn't mean they'll reward you. It just means they'll use you.

A bloated capitalist, like 'im, what do hexploit us poor dawgs, ought to be lickidated. It was Mr. Toller undoubtedly who was saying that ; and Red recognized his own oratorical expression, liquidated, the meaning of which, for the word had reached him from Bristol, had always puzzled him—though this had not prevented him from using it in his orations.

Somebody has to be tireless, or the fast-buck operators would asphalt the entire coast, fill every bay, and slay every living thing incapable of carrying a wallet." These

suppose that in America everything, including education and corrections, is fair game for profiteers.

everything, including education and corrections, is fair game for profiteers.

pitch. This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

But I also think the doctrine of laissez faire, carried to its extreme, is equally repugnant. Too many capitalists use laissez faire as an excuse to gouge the public and exploit the poor.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

I think I'm done with being nice because at the end of the day, I get taken advantage of. They get everything and I get nothing.

I hate being lied to I hate being ignored & I hate being used.

I hate being played and taken advantage of.

The swollen bellies that followed were not a thing of shame; they were profit: more slaves. These unions were not always rape; sometimes there was mutual satisfaction and even affection. At least that is what the men who spoke of them believed.

Seperti juga bagi orang-orang pribumi lain, bagi Salim itu pun logika yang tidak bisa diusik-usik. Bila kita kuli kontrak, kita pun kehilangan semua kemanusiaan dan hak kita. Kita harus selalu melakukan apa yang diperintahkan oleh seorang tuan administratur untuk melakukannya, dan karena itu akan sangat ganjillah bila kita harus sakit karena satu pon daging busuk

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin...

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker