Shaking with fury, not shock... because abuse of power *still comes as no surprise.
At times there are no words. Thankfully there are the words of those on whose shoulders we cry, and then on whose shoulders we stand...
- Jenny Holzer, Truisms, 1978-1987
"Radical feminism is working for the eradication of domination and elitism in all human relationships. This would make self-determination the ultimate good and require the downfall of society as we know it today."
- Celestine Ware, 1970
"Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist."
- bell hooks, 1996
"This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, ‘This is the way the world works.’ It’s enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful."
- Elizabeth Janeway, 1980
"I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves."
- Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
"So the question is, what happens psychologically to people who are oppressed and who lack the power to overthrow the oppressor? Well in that case frustrated vindictiveness builds over time to become this deep bitterness that Nietzsche gives the French name, "ressentiment". Resentment in English."
- Natalie Wynn, 2017.
"When we coined the expression ‘All power to the people’, we had in mind emphasizing the word "power" for we recognize that the will to power is the basic drive of man. But it is incorrect to seek power over people. We have been subjected to the dehumanizing power of exploitation and racism for hundreds of years; and the Black community has its will to power also. What we seek, however, is not power over people, but the power of control of our own destiny."
- Huey P. Newton, 1971
- Lady Pink in Jenny Holzer Truism Tee, 1983
- Jenny Holzer, 1982
- Jenny Holzer, 1982