Booker T. Washington Quotes

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

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

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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

You're a Good Little Slave

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.

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.

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

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..