Gender Quote by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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

There is a theory behind the culture of victimhood: It's called "intersectionality." This theory posits that racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc. are interconnected, overlapping,…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

"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

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. It's happened in the USA between white…

— Tim Tebow

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

— Audre Lorde

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

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

— Tim Wise

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

— Margaret Atwood

The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for their cultural…

— Franchesca Ramsey

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

— Audre Lorde

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

“intersectionality”—prejudice stemming from the intersections of racist ideas and other forms of bigotry, such as sexism, classism, ethnocentrism, and homophobia.”

— Ibram X. Kendi