Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.Martin Luther King
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.Karl Heinrich Marx
Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently. Samuel R.Delany
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' Margaret Atwood
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. John Henrik Clarke
To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class. Joan Didion
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting. Margaret Atwood