Blackness Quote by Rita Mae Brown

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

Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it…

— Dave McKean

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

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn…

— Kathleen Hanna

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just…

— Assata Shakur

From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sizes…

— Audre Lorde

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

— Assata Shakur

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 something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

— Robin Morgan

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

“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

My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through…

— Marlon Riggs