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

— Robin Morgan

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Tim Wise

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

— Joseph Addison

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.

— Hugh Masekela

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

— Florynce Kennedy

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.

— Kathleen Hanna

I've always hated oppression.

— Rodrigo Duterte

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

— Tacitus

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

— Simone Weil

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— John Henrik Clarke

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

— Junius