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“You can’t love God and abuse the immigrant. You can’t love God and bully the outcast. You can’t love God and oppress the poor.”

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

The experience is the opposite of what one feels by the image glut and sound bites of modern life, the psychologically destabilizing ether of digital distractions that can oppress the soul.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025

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

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2024

“Still this place seems to me a peaceful realm where no tyrannical king can oppress you.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The residents of Piltover enjoy the privileges of life in an affluent and powerful society, one that casually oppresses the impoverished inhabitants of Zaun.

From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2024

“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

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

He wasn't using certain language or gestures as a means of reinforcing a system that oppresses certain groups of people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2018

There is a strange heaviness in the air—I say heaviness for want of a better word; I mean that it oppresses us both.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Faux explained that, theoretically, yes, there are many ways that Bitcoin could serve the marginalized and oppressed: It could be used in international remittances; it could protect wealth against irresponsible governments.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Jourdane spent his life championing the causes he believed in, such as safe conditions for workers, voting rights and standing up for the oppressed, his family said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Years later, she testified against him, but rather than feeling empowered, she felt "oppressed and helpless" as she watched the man walk free under decades-old laws Hong Kong is now seeking to overhaul.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

"I used to think that we were really a totally oppressed team, but after these three games, I have noticed that we also have bad luck as well," Ghalenoei added.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

This is easy for him, since the only thing they ask of him is not to be oppressed.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

“We took out a horrendous, horrible leader who was oppressing his own people,” Jost said.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

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

Sayce Holmes-Lewis, the founder and CEO of youth mentoring organisation Mentivity, said: "You can't recruit people from the same demographic you are oppressing on a daily basis."

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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

“They’re, like, oppressing people, man,” said the kebob sandwich eater.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai