Quotes About Oppression

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Some people think that gender equality is the biggest issue on the table, and to me, that's a privilege to even think that that's the biggest issue, because I am subject to much more inequality.

In America, a black man has to feel like he's God just to make it a little bit when white people can just feel human. They can just be themselves, but for me, I feel we have to start instilling that back into our people. That pride. That black power. That privilege to be alive.

We know that racism and white privilege are both very much alive today.

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 as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege.

I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.

Light-skinned privilege is largely through a white lens. It is exploited by oppressive forces... It was always a facade.

When those with wealth and power fear that their privilege is even mildly challenged, they invariably clothe themselves in the garbs of victimhood.

I don't hear women who are less privileged thinking they're entitled to everything, whenever they want it. That's a privilege phenomenon, but it is a phenomenon.

In the Saudi system, women are considered inferior. No matter our age, we have male guardians. We must get permission from men to attend school, to work, to marry, to travel overseas - even to have basic medical procedures.

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

I don't court controversies, but when I state facts, which are hard to digest for male-dominated authorities, they call them squabble.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

Basically, the system works to my disadvantage for no other reason than that I am a person of color, and I am telling stories about people of color.

There can't be reverse racism against a group that is not at a disadvantage.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.