Crime Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

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

— Tim Wise

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

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

“Unfortunately, oppression does not automatically produce only meaningful struggle. It has the ability to call into being a wide range of responses between partial…

— Chinua Achebe

“Yet it is—paradoxical though it may seem—precisely in the response of the oppressed to the violence of their oppressors that a gesture of love…

— Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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

— John Henrik Clarke

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being…

— Richard Wright

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it’s becoming an oppressor,

— Jon Stewart

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

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

— Andrew Solomon