This chapter presents an intercivilizational perspective on oppression, with a less articulate psychology of survival and salvation as its appendage. Oppressions that were once outside the span of awareness are no longer so, and it is quite likely that the present awareness of suffering, too, would be found wanting and would change in the future. Long-term suffering also generally means the establishment of powerful justifications for the suffering in the minds of both the oppressors and the oppressed. Continuous use of the major technique on which an oppressive system is based, namely, the cultural acceptance of violence, gradually socializes the peoples fighting oppression to some of the basic values of the systems that oppress them. A violent and oppressive society produces its own special brands of victimhood and privilege and ensures certain continuity between the victor and the defeated, the instrument and the target, and the interpreter and the interpreted.