Oppression Quotes

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself." "There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible – the new normal." "There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators, solidarity with the oppressed and their struggles everywhere." "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the state of emergency in which we live is not the exception but the rule" "The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the definitions of the white world." "Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains" "But race is the child of racism, not the father" "If you can only be tall because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious problem" "Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears" "The identity of the Negro in this country is a social and political and moral crucifixion which you would find very difficult to gaze at." "The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." "Where annual elections end where slavery begins" "The mind-forg’d manacles I hear" "I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen " "Any excuse will serve a tyrant" "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty" "To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor" "There is more than one way to burn a book." "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise. "