Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component.
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.
Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.
