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The haunting song - touching on 90s apartheid in South Africa and oppression - reached number four in the UK charts in 1987.

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Is it worth considering when people unite against tyranny and oppression?

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But she warned that the Taliban administration's "systematic oppression of women" was not confined to the country.

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As a society, we often neglect and forget the way in which societal structures coexist within the idea of oppression itself — especially within the United States.

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At the celebratory Mass, the Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, called for the Venezuelan regime to end “unjust prisons” and break “the chains of oppression.”

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

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