“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”

“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.”

“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent the workers, farmers and revolutionary intellectuals and other enlighted people who form the majority of the white population.”

“Ideas! There is no occasion for them; all that class of ideas which can be available in such a case has a language of representative feelings.”

“Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.”

“God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.”