Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
I've always hated oppression.
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 more easily endured than insult.
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.
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.