oppression
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“How do you make it right?” said Barbara Boyd, a past chair of the Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression, a decades-old advocacy group.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023
Menkes’s essay, titled “The Visual Language of Oppression: Harvey Wasn’t Working in a Vacuum,” became a viral sensation.
From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2022
Oppression has an unfortunate way of turning oppressed people into rivals.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2022
On Tuesday, the head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression said he had given the march formal status, therefore allowing it to move ahead, calling the decision of Warsaw's mayor "incomprehensible".
From Reuters • Nov. 11, 2021
Then he completed the words he said the letters stood for: “Brotherly Love Overrides Oppression and Distraction.”
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Vocabulary lists containing oppression
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr.
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