Doug Baldwin Quotes

Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Disenfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

The idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don't own it, that's a highly unnatural notion. You don't have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.

The slave system is one of constant danger, distrust, suspicion, and watchfulness. It debases those whose toil alone can produce wealth and resources for defense, to the lowest degree of which human nature is capable, to guard against mutiny and insurrection, and thus wastes energies which otherwise might be employed in national development and aggrandizement.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

I'm sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people.

The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.

We will make slavery history very soon. We will make child labor history very soon.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

For people who have been slaves for 150 years doing all the work to be called lazy and shiftless by the man who was sitting on the porch—that is a phenomenon in itself.

Colonialism must be abolished in this world as it is not in conformity with humanity and justice

It is assumed that the daughters of the poor are for the use of the rich. They assume that we’re their property.

White men are taking advantage of black men all over the world because black men are disunited.

People have nothing to lose. Government has stripped them of their dignity and their respect.

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slaver's scars, I am the Red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek— And finding only the same ole stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

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