oppressor
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In a pan-Indian context, English is an equalizer, not an oppressor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
To keep them, he said, meant treating the victim the same as the oppressor.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
In an Instagram video on Wednesday, Neeleman said her husband was portrayed as an oppressor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
“Daddy was always very proud of his time in the Army, even though he later understood and saw the United States military as an oppressor of our people,” says his daughter, Noemí Sánchez González.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 10, 2023
Students did not want to learn and teachers did not want to teach in the language of the oppressor.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
These included quotes by Fanon, a philosopher who wrote extensively about the ways in which colonized people adopt the mindsets of their oppressors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
The enslaved asserted the truth the oppressors feared above all: that they were actual human beings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
The set proves that having standards and integrity, even in the face of your oppressors and the ugliness they broadcast, will create something beautiful enough to combat even the most despicable reality.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
The victims, he said, should not be treated the same way as the oppressors.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
I walked around Algiers, hearing rank-and-file expressions of hatred for America for supporting the oppressors of the Algerians.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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