Black Oppression Quotes
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It’s oppression (Black Oppression Quotes)
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called ‘Untouchables,’ the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression. (Black Oppression Quotes)
I don’t think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression. (Black Oppression Quotes)
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That’s oppression in this country. (Black Oppression Quotes)
I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South (Black Oppression Quotes)
I didn’t run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place. (Black Oppression Quotes)
Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - ‘This is ours! This belongs to us.’ You can’t just talk about equality for somebody else. Let’s pass it on. Let’s pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality. (Black Oppression Quotes)
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. (Black Oppression Quotes)
A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization’s struggle against oppression. (Black Oppression Quotes)
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others. (Black Oppression Quotes)
. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression. (Black Oppression Quotes)
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy (Black Oppression Quotes)
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression (Black Oppression Quotes)