Crucial Quote by Bell Hooks

Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.

— Jon M. Chu

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

— Paulo Freire

“Oppression cannot teach justice. That task belongs to empathy.”

— Jamie Arpin-Ricci

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

— Margaret Atwood

“It’s the same problem we struggle with when it comes to marginalizing our privilege, power, or position as we focus on the voices and…

— Richard Beck

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as…

— Paulo Freire

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own…

— Andrea Dworkin

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

— Kim Il-sung

A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.

— Thomas Carlyle

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

Representation is everything.

— Storm Reid