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So… the nation was struggling with how to assimilate their new freedom with the oppression of the past.

From Ozy

He gave his supporters a sense of belonging, a shared sense of oppression from those in positions of power and influence.

Help them accept non-closure, both because the event is evolving hourly and because it is representative of larger systems of oppression that have been operating in our country for generations.

From Fortune

It doesn’t treat the United States as an unvarying force for freedom or oppression but as an arena where worldviews compete.

This needs conscious change, and that will take as much effort as any other fight against systematic oppression.

The reason we were liberals is we were against oppression.

They are to face oppression with humble persistence and absolute conviction.

Jundullah and Jaish ul Adl sprang up “in reaction to that kind of oppression,” he said.

If anything, every new religion emerged at least in part as a protest against violence and oppression.

But for many Muslim women, religion is seen as a source of liberation rather than a source of oppression.

He was able to make peace with the Chinese emperor, and under his rule the Koreans enjoyed freedom from war and oppression.

At the time of his birth, the rulers of the country were very unpopular because of their wickedness and oppression of the people.

It is a thing invented by the great to enable them to pursue the grinding and oppression of the small.

And the fact must be insisted upon, that all religion, in its very nature, makes for persecution and oppression.

Blood-shed, oppression, extortion, and all the instinctive habits of the shrewd savage were again rife.

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On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to oppression, such as: abuse, brutality, coercion, cruelty, despotism, and dictatorship.

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

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