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For not only had Mamá and Daddy outsmarted segregation and oppression and sent all four of their children to college, but our daughters would be college educated as well.

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It was relayed as well to her GoFundMe page, which asked donors to help cover her ongoing daily care costs while decrying the need for such charity as “ableist oppression.”

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Spend much time in any of these disciplines’ classrooms and you’ll hear such phrases as “resisting systems of oppression,” “advancing social justice” and “preparing students to become agents of social change.”

The haunting song - touching on 90s apartheid in South Africa and oppression - reached number four in the UK charts in 1987.

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Is it worth considering when people unite against tyranny and oppression?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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