William Harper Quotes

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

How many, even of the better sort, would choose to be slaves to those above them, provided they might exercise an arbitrary and tyrannical rule over all below them?

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.

They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

That’s a slave talking.