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In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.

— Laura Bates

“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.”

— William A. Henry III

The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.

— Anne Applebaum

“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and respect given…

— Julie Banks Lewis

“Everyone is crying out for peace... I need equal rights and justice.”

— Peter Tosh

Why can't we have a voice? What's the difference between an athlete having millions or Donald Trump? Every time a politician talks, they talk…

— Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

— Harry Belafonte

The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to…

— Sheila Rowbotham

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

— Malcolm X

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

— Nancy Mairs

“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of…

— Seyla Benhabib

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…

— Thomas Jefferson

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle…

— Shulamith Firestone

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

— Simone Weil

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