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The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.
The things you used to own, now they own you.
You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.
We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.
Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money.
The powerful and the powerless.
Ownership is yet another of the endless forms of arrogance engaged in by the lower self.
Old habits are strong and jealous. They will not be displaced easily if they get any warning that such plans are afoot; they will fight for their existence with subtlety and persuasiveness.
Owning our power means claiming the credibility and uniqueness of our own humanity.
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
If they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us.
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
For they conquer who believe they can.
We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.
We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.
They took lots of things they had no right to.
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
The love of possession is a desease with them.
We are revolutionaries.
We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.
These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.
Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.
Power must be claimed. Wealth won. Rule, dominion, empire purchased with blood.
You scarless children deserve nothing. You do not know pain. You do not know what
your forefathers sacrificed to place you on these heights. But soon, you will.
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.
We are all visitors in the world and we are crowned guests invited to feast. We depart from the world and leave the world the way we found it. We could own the world yet the world is our master.
Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.
Cause we they leaders, and they the followers
And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'
if there isn't a them, there can't be an us.-- Jodi Picoult
If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.
Humans are no less eager than in the past to dominate, degrade, humiliate, and control - often in order to confirm their own sense of pride and superiority. (Adam Smith wrote in 1776 that this was the main motive for slavery.) But
We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life
They, OLDEFO (Old Established Forces), carry out l'exploitation de l'homme par 'homme (the exploitation of man by man). Do not let them live, so that there's no colonialism anymore in the world.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal.
The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.
The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved. When
We are pretenders.
We hold demonstrations and civil wars when inequities are discovered.
Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.
We have met the enemy, and it is us.
You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.
Projectors, Brokers of Capital, Insurancers, Peddlers upon the global Scale, Enterprisers and Quacks, - these are the last poor fallen and feckless inheritors of a knowledge they can never use, but in the service of Greed.
Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.
Curious," Bauchelain said. "What is it you wish us to do for you?"
"Usurp the king," Imid Factalo said.
"Usurp, as in depose."
"Right."
"Depose, as in remove."
"Yes."
"Remove, as in kill.
Around here, I'm pretty sure 'us' means Texans, and 'them' means the other seven billion on the planet.
Our servants (weaker nations) are becoming our masters. You have my word: As long as there is life in me, I will spend the rest of my days fighting to restore the lost sovereignty of the United States ...
We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position ... The American people have changed.
Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security -
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
We can't own ideas; they can only own us.Ideas-- Marty Rubin
Even the Us's are Them's.
The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.
We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights.
All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites.
Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave?
Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?
We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!
There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us.
Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we [Americans] as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all constraint, when the best available evidence would suggest that we are in fact tame, spayed, and easily brought to heel.
Plunder has matured into habit and addiction; the people who could author the mechanized death of our ghettos, the mass rape of private prisons, then engineer their own forgetting, must inevitably plunder much more. This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap gasoline.
They keep saying that their kingdom is not of this world, then take everything they can lay their hands on.
Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.
If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit
The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn't we be able to take it back if we have the power to?
When a country is largely owned by foreigners, there is a recurrent and almost irrepressible social demand for expropriation.
No one can take, nor steal what they did not give. They don't have power that role like that!
I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.
Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?
And what do they want!?-- Deyth Banger
Man does not steal, he conquers
That of which we are not aware, owns us.
We the People . . . The People of the Long House.
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
Confound these ancestors ... They've stolen our best ideas!
To the disrupters go the spoils.
We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.
As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
Power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.
Increasingly, Americans don't own America.
We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are.
They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.
With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.
When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.
We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.
Excitation of the instinct of appropriation at the sight of the weak: it is to be remembered, however, that " strong " and " weak " are relative conceptions.
Our supreme governors, the mob.
They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
When imperial powers fray at the edges, ethnic groups perceived to be the beneficiaries of their trust suddenly start to look like aliens not natives, however long they may have been settled.
You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion.