Discrimination Quote by Rita Mae Brown

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

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

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

— John Henrik Clarke

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

— Andrew Solomon

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

— Tim Wise

Oppression is the essence of power.

— Ernst Kaltenbrunner

“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 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

In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can…

— Audre Lorde

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

— Margaret Atwood

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

— Florynce Kennedy

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