654 Quotes About Oppression

Abstraction is a luxury of the privileged.

Strength used for oppression is violence, strength used for defending the weak is justice.

To whom can you appeal for justice when the source of justice itself is the source of your oppression?

I cannot stop the oppressions of the past, but I’ll keep working till death, to prevent the oppressions of the future.

It is increasingly difficult for social justice activists to advocate – with a clear conscience – for women, the poor, or immigrants while eating other animals or consuming the nursing milk of cattle. Animal activists have already begun to effectively expose the links of oppression across species.

All human beings are systematically socialized to oppress cattle, chickens, snakes, mice, dogs, and all other nonhuman individuals. After the fashion of Sojouner Truth, might cows and chickens ask: “Ain’t I a female, too?” And would not dogs and snakes ask, "Ain't I a living being, too?

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

Emphasizing a lifestyle based on consumption is the ultimate violence against poor countries.

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.