Choices Quote by Andrea Dworkin

Oppression is the essence of power.

— Ernst Kaltenbrunner

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

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against something while…

— John D'Agata

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to…

— Simone de Beauvoir

There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response

— Julian Assange

“Oppression is the seed of power; you will plant it against yourself”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to list all…

— Dean Spade

“But the more significant factor is that one can easily remain free of even the most intense political oppression simply by placing one’s faith…

— Glenn Greenwald

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

— Rita Mae Brown

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

— Margaret Atwood

“Oppression is domesticating. The gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge…

— Paulo Freire