Can’t believe I’m going to the gym this early.
“Oppression—overwhelming control—is necrophilic; it is nourished by love of death, not life”
“The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a priviledge which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egotistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have. For them, having more is an inalienable right, a right they acquired through their own ‘effort,’ with their ‘courage to take risks.’ If others do not have more, it is because they are incompetent and lazy, and worst of all is their injustifiable ingratitude towards the 'generous gestures’ of the dominant class. Precisely because they are 'ungrateful’ and 'envious,’ the oppressed are regarded as potential enemies who must be watched.”
“[For the oppressor,] discovering themselves to be an oppressor may cause considerable anguish, but it does not necessarily lead to solidarity with the oppressed. Rationalizing their guilt through paternalistic treatment of the oppressed, all the while holding them fast in a position of dependence, will not do. Solidarity requires that one enter into the situation of those with whom one is solidary; it is a radical posture.”
“You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
