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If I can walk up to you and tell you to lick my boots or die.
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There are never two options. I almost feel bad for saying it, but read some Foucault. What he gets to in a whole lot of detail is this...power is not a binary relationship. It's not that someone has it, and uses it on people who don't. It's a lot more fluid, and reciprocal.
subjugated people everywhere have found non-violent means of resistance, what theorist Homi Bhaba calls "sly civility" where the resistance is not overt, but still upsets the colonial/opressive power.
Religion is at it's best when it gives us the tools for critiquing the power structures around us, and our participation in them. and i think there's a lot to work with from that standpoint.