Ogden Nash Quotes

Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

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

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.

My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.

I'm proud to be part of the resistance.

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.

Power cedes nothing without a demand.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.

An oppressed people will always rise.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!