Tom Tancredo Quotes

For the Left, victimhood has long carried social currency.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

At what point do the oppressed become the oppressors?

the plain fact that throughout the world today organized groups of men by monopoly of economic and physical power, legal enactment and intellectual training are limiting with determination and unflagging zeal the development of other groups; and that the concentration of particularly economic power today puts the majority of mankind into slavery to the rest. But one thing is sure and that is that these ancestors of mine and their descendants have had a common history; have suffered a common disaster and have one long memory.

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors…. The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood/

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

It is necessary to be very intelligent in the work of oppression.

The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

All oppression creates a state of war.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

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

... this is a grievance society and that if you want to get into its leading edge you pretty well have to be a victim.

There is a kind of theme that runs through the modern world that human relationships should be looked at in terms of power relationships, in terms of the manipulation of power. That is one of the really wicked ways of looking at the world. It strips people of their humanness.

People who bear the brunt of dominant economic and military power have always resented, even hated, the subordination they experience while admiring grudgingly the institutions that sustain the subordination.

By us, and not for us