“Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how very becomingly they fit.”— Mary Astell
“I think that we've gotten to a place where we think that being offended is the same as being oppressed.”— D. L. Hughley
“Maybe it was a land of sunshine and oranges. But it was also a land of oppression and shadow.”— Peter Abrahams
“In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad.”— Anna Akhmatova
“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.”— Marian Anderson
“The intellectual's temptation is to be not on the side of the oppressed, but against the oppressor.”— Raymond Aron
“The State is a vast slaughterhouse, and a graveyard, where all the living aspirations and forces of a country come to be slain and buried.”— Mikhail Bakunin
“Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.”— James Baldwin
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”— James Baldwin
“The oppressor would not be so strong if he had no accomplices among the oppressed.”— Simone de Beauvoir
“The crucial point is not the presence or absence of oppression, but the way in which it is handled.”— Ruth Benedict