Anti Oppression Quotes

“Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.”
― Simone DeBeauvoir

“Individual happiness seems hollow unless all human beings are free of oppression, poverty, and violence — as well as free to speak and act in the public sphere. This doesn’t mean we have to be miserable in the meantime. We can’t help each other if we don’t help ourselves. But we have to go further than the smiley face rhetoric of commoditized mindfulness. Dissatisfaction and unhappiness are not impediments to revolution; they are its fuel.”
― Ronald Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality

“There is no "Them". There is only Us.”
― Anna Jane McIntyre