Certain Quote by Kate Millett

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

— Gao Xingjian

There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things a little…

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic desire.

— Gerald Stern

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

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

— John Henrik Clarke

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

— Andrew Solomon

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

— Garry Kasparov

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

[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

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

— Paulo Freire

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