Empathy Quote by Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“Oppression doesn’t make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we’ll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable.”

— Victor LaValle

“When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.”

— Bryant McGill

“It is the people who are displeased with injustice that can be a channel for social justice.”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Robin DiAngelo

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 tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

“Feeling injustice is the only means of understanding justice.”

— Canadian Human Rights Lawyer Payam Akhavan

“We who are oppressed love those who fight against oppression.”

— Louis Farrakhan Muhammad Sr

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

— Lundy Bancroft

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

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Oppression is built on a series of assumptions, and if they begin to crumble, the system is in grave danger. The assumptions have got…

— Pearl Cleage

“Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.”

— J.S.B. Morse