oppressor

Example Sentences

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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

The oppressor cannot look to the oppressed and go, "How do we fix this?"

From Salon • Feb. 22, 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

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela