Observational Quote by Jackson Taviri

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

“We have a deep interest in denying the forms of oppression which benefit us.”

— Robin DiAngelo

“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

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

— Margaret Atwood

The thing about terror and why it's so interesting is that terror is there to keep us safe. But then the issue comes in:…

— Jonathan Majors

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

— Andrew Solomon

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

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

— John Steinbeck

“In short, the abusive mentality is the mentality of oppression.”

— Lundy Bancroft

Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

— Susie Bright

“The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in…

— Thomas I. Emerson