Diversity Quote by Margaret Atwood

“When a group has internalised their oppression, they may find themselves unable to imagine living without it”

— Malebo Sephodi

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

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

“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 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 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

The root of oppression is the loss of memory.

— Paula Gunn Allen

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

“Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

— Bell Hooks

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to…

— Simone de Beauvoir