Henry Carter Stuart Quotes

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

Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?

White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.

Negroes are almost too ignorant to eat, scarcely wise enough to breathe, mere existing human machines.

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?

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

You face racism in small and large ways.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Their authority over their slaves renders them vain and imperious.

The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.

It is not right that a servile race should inhabit the same locality which their ancestors inhabited in power and glory.

There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.

[The Negro is] an inferior race, who in all ages, and in every part of the globe, ... has shown themselves incapable of self-government.

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

To disarm the people—that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other