What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.
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While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.
I've always hated oppression.
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term.
Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.
If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.