William Morris Quotes

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them

Minorities…are almost always in the right.

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

the plain fact that throughout the world today organized groups of men by monopoly of economic and physical power, legal enactment and intellectual training are limiting with determination and unflagging zeal the development of other groups; and that the concentration of particularly economic power today puts the majority of mankind into slavery to the rest. But one thing is sure and that is that these ancestors of mine and their descendants have had a common history; have suffered a common disaster and have one long memory.

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

It is necessary to be very intelligent in the work of oppression.

I think 'Humans' is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society that we treat as less than... as subordinates; people who we treat badly and take for granted. Often they are the same people who work hard to keep the city going. We need to think about that.

I value what I learned from being cast in the margins and what that felt like.

The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.

I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

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.