Waylon Jennings Quotes

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

He apologizes for injustice …. Belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions…. He should be unceasingly and firmly opposed.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

We don't take over the means of those whom we abhor.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.