oppress
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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
“You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024
But that doesn’t mean she’s motivated by a desire to oppress.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2024
Cecile wouldn’t tell us to smile at anyone who tried to oppress us.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
As many critics pointed out, if merely seeing a same-sex couple in a storybook oppresses Christians, then what about the rest of the world?
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2025
“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
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 Los Angeles 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
My voice strains to be louder than the laughter all around me, the laughter that oppresses me as much as the heat.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
Talarico, believing God is on the side of the oppressed and the marginalized, focuses his message to voters on equity and protecting personal freedom.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
"There is discipline and then there is being oppressed," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“And these are the times when we need it really badly, because somehow, we’re being oppressed all the time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
Although she had already received a good deal of acclaim, O’Keeffe had begun to feel oppressed by her life in New York with her husband, the pioneering photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed.
From "1984" by George Orwell
You can't look at me as someone who's oppressing me and then ask me, "But how do we make you better?"
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2024
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
"You can't recruit people from the same group you are oppressing on a day-to-day basis," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 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
To them, it was a matter of the Haves oppressing the Have-nots.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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