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Instead, it was proof the government is out to oppress them.

Few will be heartened by the fact that the debt will oppress race-neutrally.

Sure, as Sotomayor wrote, “democratically approved legislation can oppress minority groups.”

You can only oppress a community for so long before they will fight with toothpicks against machine guns.

Hamas claims to be fighting for freedom while invoking laws that oppress women and religious minorities.

Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire: and let them perish that oppress thy people.

The general sense clearly is, that the friars oppress the weak, but not the strong.

I never injured a creature in my life, and can not find it in my heart to wish evil even to those who injure and oppress me.

In the first place, I am an Anarchist: I do not believe in man-made law, designed to enslave and oppress humanity.

The employment of children and apprentices enabled the masters to oppress them; they were unable to earn more than 8s.