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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

“Yes, the queer community has villains, we have people who are seeking to oppress us,” Rice says in the film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

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

“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

You talk about how music helps us make sense of our sorrows and what oppresses us, and to celebrate the joy, and what lifts us up.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2020

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

We must stand up amid a system that still oppresses us and develop an unassailable and majestic sense of values.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

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

Traditional religion might not have worked out, or perhaps users are feeling oppressed by the Almighty Algorithm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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

This led Iran to head coach Amir Ghalenoei saying they are the "most oppressed" team at the tournament following the draw with New Zealand.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Weariness and more than weariness oppressed him; it seemed as if a heavy spell was laid on his mind and body.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

To them, it was a matter of the Haves oppressing the Have-nots.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela