oppression
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Their goal was for the album to tell a story of radicalization, following a protagonist who shifts from complacency to an awareness of injustice and institutional oppression, and ultimately resolves to act against it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Lenkinski is an Israeli American who has spent more than two decades working against Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and helping lead organizations that pushed for democracy and equality there.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Researchers believe those lower estimates were influenced by the widespread population losses caused by disease, frontier violence, and systemic oppression before the earliest Australian censuses were conducted.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Last year, ECB chair Richard Thompson described the Taliban's oppression of women and girls as "gender apartheid".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
It will be the working base for an action program designed to eliminate the political oppression, the economic exploitation, and the social degradation suffered daily by twenty-two million Afro-Americans.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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Vocabulary lists containing oppression
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr.
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