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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

"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, he said, AI could become so effective that it could powerfully oppress free speech.

From Los Angeles 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

“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

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

Therese’s illness oppresses the convent like a heavy blanket laid over spring’s green floor.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

“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

In 1992, he was offered a peerage by Conservative Prime Minister John Major in recognition for his work with a charity set up to help Kurds who were being oppressed by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

From BBC ● 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

He posted Tuesday that "artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed."

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

I had read with awe how the Communists had sent phonetic experts into the vast regions of Russia to listen to the stammering dialects of peoples oppressed for centuries by the czars.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

I want to make a film about how our society is oppressing itself.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2022

“They’re, like, oppressing people, man,” said the kebob sandwich eater.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai