Their Oppression Quotes
- [The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the… — Joel Barlow
- People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be… — James A. Baldwin
- Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people… — Raoul Vaneigem
- Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a… — Steven Biko
- [T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to their oppression, and… — James Madison
- Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their… — Steven Biko
- A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause… — Joel Barlow