Top Oppression Quotes

A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

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

Oppression Definition

(n.) The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.

(n.) That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.

(n.) A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.

(n.) Ravishment; rape.

When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a biological attribute, and then putting them aside, putting them in a corner as victims of oppression.....

The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality, and infringe on the integrity and individuality of their world. This is done in politics, in psycho...

I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, Why does it have to be you as a woma...

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, po...

God afflicts people for a reason

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Anger - justifiable anger in the face of oppression and prejudice - should not be mistaken for hatred.

Do not allow the opinions of others to oppress you.

… the major enemy of black survival in America has been and is neither oppression nor exploitation but rather the nihilistic threat—that is, loss of hope and absence of meaning. For as long as hope re...

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher.

But too often men react to women in positions of power with misogyny, often in sexualized terms. I have heard men in such situations talk about how "I'd like to fuck that bitch and teach her a lesson,...

Jewish guy did not know this, but 'oppression olympics' is what smart liberal Americans say, to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up.

Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppres...