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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.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

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.

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

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

I've always hated oppression.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.