use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
60
Scrabble Score
44
Letters
11
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To use the tools and framework of an oppressive system to end that oppression.
Example Sentences
- "You'll never be able to use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house."
- "We are, in fact, trying to use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house by appealing to the same binary logic that undergirds SB 1250. As Butler points out, however, this is a strategy that is destined for trouble: the[…]"
- "[…], and I'm not sure mother grizzly bears would agree that love implies pacifism, nor mother moose, nor many other mothers I've known. You can't use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house."
- "Can we, indeed, use the “master's tools” to dismantle the “master's house?” Says Audre Lorde (1984: 112), in Sister Outsider: ... the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to [win]."
- "Ho Chi Minh, Mahatma Gandhi and Lee Kuan Yew, all of whom used the master's tools to dismantle the master's house, are cited as compelling examples of the empowerment gained through European education."
- "Initially, though, Tahneh and Diut appear to use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house. In order to prevent Diut's capture, Tahneh uses her influence to persuade her Rohkohn community and Diut, as well as his two Tehkohn[…]"