oppress

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

“You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024

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

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2024

“But we certainly don’t want to oppress churches or a family member from getting out their family.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

After the death of Duke Filippo, the Milanese employed Francesco Sforza to wage war against the Venetians; having defeated the enemy at Caravaggio, he joined with them to oppress the Milanese, his employers.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

Almost all animals are disturbed by the approach of thunder, which oppresses them with its mounting tension and breaks the natural rhythm by which they live.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

"There is discipline and then there is being oppressed," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

The resource curse got its name for a reason, the strange alchemy by which having lots of oil keeps a country poor and oppressed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

“When I see an ICE agent doing something radically bad and harmful, I can recognize that that is a person who is suffering and being oppressed by a deep darkness.”

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

“And these are the times when we need it really badly, because somehow, we’re being oppressed all the time.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

About ten thousand people were in attendance, and I told the crowd that the Defiance Campaign would be the most powerful action ever undertaken by the oppressed masses in South Africa.

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

"You can't recruit people from the same group you are oppressing on a day-to-day basis," he says.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 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

In this country, as much as we have this long tradition of excluding and oppressing, we also have a tradition of overcoming and resilience and fighting together.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2021

This priest, Bartolomé de las Casas, suggested using imported African laborers instead of oppressing the native people.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis