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“You can’t love God and abuse the immigrant. You can’t love God and bully the outcast. You can’t love God and oppress the poor.”

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

"These rules lack humanity and rationality, and they oppress us every day."

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

But that doesn’t mean she’s motivated by a desire to oppress.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2024

Still, he said, AI could become so effective that it could powerfully oppress free speech.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024

Cecile wouldn’t tell us to smile at anyone who tried to oppress us.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

As many critics pointed out, if merely seeing a same-sex couple in a storybook oppresses Christians, then what about the rest of the world?

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2025

“We do not feel our beliefs, voices and actions belong anywhere near a space that misrepresents and oppresses people of any background, ethnicity or race.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2022

We do not feel our beliefs, voices and actions belong anywhere near a space that misrepresents and oppresses people of any background, ethnicity or race.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2022

Ms. Kouchner quotes a saying dear to her father Bernard: “Between the strong and the weak, it’s liberty that oppresses and the law that liberates.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2021

There is a strange heaviness in the air—I say heaviness for want of a better word; I mean that it oppresses us both.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Faux explained that, theoretically, yes, there are many ways that Bitcoin could serve the marginalized and oppressed: It could be used in international remittances; it could protect wealth against irresponsible governments.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

He posted Tuesday that "artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed."

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Jourdane spent his life championing the causes he believed in, such as safe conditions for workers, voting rights and standing up for the oppressed, his family said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

They said they lived under constant surveillance and claimed the Chinese government oppressed and persecuted Tibetans.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The mayor fumbled when asked in a radio show about the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim group that China has been accused of oppressing, saying “What’s a Uygher?”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

Sayce Holmes-Lewis, the founder and CEO of youth mentoring organisation Mentivity, said: "You can't recruit people from the same demographic you are oppressing on a daily basis."

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2023

She said she would do everything within the EU framework to reach the point of imposing sanctions against those responsible for oppressing women in Iran.

From Reuters ● Sep. 29, 2022

I want to make a film about how our society is oppressing itself.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2022

“They’re, like, oppressing people, man,” said the kebob sandwich eater.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai