Quotes about Subjugation

You forget you have a master here,'' says the tyrant. ''I'll demolish the first who puts me out of temper! I insist on perfect sobriety and silence. Oh, boy! was that you? Frances, darling, pull his hair as you go by; I heard him snap his fingers.'' 'Frances pulled his hair heartily;

Oppressors themselves acknowledge that even the weakest of their subjects must agree to be oppressed.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.