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"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

A second committee will create a policy for refusing grant funding tied to “illegal occupation abroad” or that limit free speech or oppress minorities, according to the memorandum.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024

It was during this Red Summer that black Americans, for the first time, mounted armed resistance against mobs of whites who were determined to oppress them and deny them their rights.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Film critic Robin Wood famously argued that "the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses."

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2023

“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

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

“I didn’t want that clean, wholesome life ... It felt so fake. I identified with real people, oppressed people who were outside that life. I wanted to taste real life — street life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Faux explained that, theoretically, yes, there are many ways that Bitcoin could serve the marginalized and oppressed: It could be used in international remittances; it could protect wealth against irresponsible governments.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

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

The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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