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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.

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.

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.

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

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

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

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

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.