T. B. Joshua Quotes

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

I don't know why people like being oppressed.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.

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.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

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

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

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

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power — power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

Fear is the first obstacle we have to get over in our battle for freedom

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.