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What the play most painfully illustrates is that for women like these—impoverished or politically oppressed—appealing options are nonexistent.

What a difference, he said, to have a decision-maker in the White House with family roots in another country long oppressed by an authoritarian regime.

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Leaning heavily on Jeffersonian rhetoric, the Browns called on the “oppressed” populace to rise and assert “their natural rights” as “citizens of a free republic.”

In another soaring room, dramatic bronze sculptures flip the script on the triumphs of Western civilization — placing the focus on the oppressed.

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In a 1943 self-portrait in oil, he locks eyes with the viewer, the determined look on his face evidence of the solemn responsibility he felt to be an artistic voice for the oppressed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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