Quotes about Oppression

The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. and the I.R.S. all combined can't turn up a thing I got, beyond a car to drive and a seven-room house to live in.

Shorty felt about the war the same way I and most ghetto Negroes did: Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight.

Is it clear why I have said that the American white man's malignant superiority complex has done him more harm than an invading army?

You don't have to go behind bars to be in jail in this country. If you are born in this country with black skin you are already in jail, you are already confined, you are already watched over by a warden who poses as your mayor and poses as your governor and poses as your President.

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, my brothers and sisters—Plymouth Rock landed on us!

I could tell the impact of this upon them. They had been aware that the plight of the black man in America was bad, but they had not been aware that it was inhuman, that it was psychological castration.

the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's non-white man.

Indeed, how can white society atone for enslaving, for raping, for unmanning, for otherwise brutalizing millions of human beings, for centuries? What atonement would the God of Justice demand for the robbery of the black people's labor, their lives, their true identities, their culture, their history--and even their human dignity?

the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as "nigger pool.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

In communities and individuals alike, excessive freedom topples over into excessive slavery. Extreme freedom produces a tyrant, along with the extremely harsh and evil slavery that goes with him.

Tell me, Elly Kleinman, why do men feel threatened by women?