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“Violence is central to patriarchy, and the forms of systemic violence are interconnected in Western societies. Recognizing similarities across forms of oppression (such as racism, child abuse, speciesism, and sexism, for example) is essential.”

Book:Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

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“But for a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress. And now, if nothing else is done, Syl Anagist must again find a way to fission its people into subgroupings and create reasons for conflict among them. There's not enough magic to be had just from plants and genegineered fauna; someone must suffer, if the rest are to enjoy luxury.”

Capitalism Systemic Oppression Broken Earth Trilogy The Stone Sky

Author:N K Jemisin

“Oppressions are by definition linked--linked by common ideologies, by institutional forces, and by socialization that makes oppressions normative and invisible.”

Feminism Racism Social Justice Oppression Sexism Intersectionality Culture Critique Systemic Oppression Institutionalized

Book:Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“Failing to notice a lack of Latino and African-American representation in congress is a result of systemic oppression – racism. General indifference to the fact that white men dominate large corporations is part of the invisibility of both racism and sexism. A lack of concern about the plight of a “breeding” sow on a factory farm is also a result of normative systematic oppression – speciesism.”

Racism Sexism Intersectionality Factory Farming Speciesism Sow Pig Systemic Oppression Institutional Oppression

Book:Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“Resources are limited in many schools--however, if we prioritize dismantling systemic oppression, if we prioritize the needs of our most marginalized students, we can find the time, support, money, and resources that we need.”

Resources Schools Marginalized Systemic Oppression

Book:Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice

Source: Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice

“If a book wants to question and doubt many things that are taken for granted or codified, how can the writer manage to do that, to put all those things in doubt? Apparently he has to write, his only tool is language, but what language should he use? That’s where the problem begins, because if he uses the language that expresses the world he is attacking, that language will betray him. How can he denounce something with the tools that are used by the enemy, that is, the stratified, codified language, a language already used by the masters and their disciples?”

Writing Literature Language Systemic Oppression

Book:Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980

Source: Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980

“i’m not interested in a feminism that thinks simply placing women at the top of oppressive systems is progress - not your convenient figurehead”

Feminism Systemic Oppression

Book:Home Body

Source: Home Body

“PASSED THE DEFINITION OF HUMAN. PASSED THE AUTHORIZATION TO EXIT.”

System Systemic Racism Systemic Oppression

Book:The High Auction

Source: The High Auction

“Time to exit the wall. Her right wrist, extended through its window, shows her CRAB—her identity, her only proof of being a human, its limbs embedded into her skin.”

System Systemic Oppression Evil System

Book:The High Auction

Source: The High Auction

“When dealing with systemic injustice, just because something is not calculated doesn't mean it isn't by design.”

Injustice Oppression Systemic Oppression Systemic Calculated By Design

Author:Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“Speaking truth to power about systemic injustice does not create disunity and division. In fact, it names the very disunity and division that we have failed to acknowledge and take accountability for.”

Truth Justice Responsibility Power Unity Injustice Accountability Disunity Systemic Oppression

Author:Jamie Arpin-Ricci

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