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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

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.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

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.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.