Crime Quote by Maria Alyokhina

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

— M.F. Moonzajer

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

— Malcolm X

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

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— John Henrik Clarke

“To stop oppression, you will first end the tyranny of the oppressors.”

— Steven Chuks Nwakokeke

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those…

— Alveda King

Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's…

— Florynce Kennedy

“The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

— Robin DiAngelo

“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