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In the fight for change, the most oppressed and downtrodden come to the forefront.
In its place will come the class of productive workers, the working class, that has been up until today oppressed.
I am one of the great army of black youth of this country who feels with the intuitive instinct of the oppressed, that a crisis is imminent.
They firmly oppose the national liberation of the oppressed Balkan peoples.
Rousseau taught that human beings are naturally asocial, and in that case to live in society is to be terribly oppressed.
The oppressed has become the oppressor, with the tables being ruthlessly overturned.
It would be easier to deal with Ms Rice as a helpless victim oppressed by a bunch of white bigots.
The biblical hero who avenged himself in a suicide mission is the wrong role model for the oppressed.
The liberation theologists have written extensively about the folly of the oppressed using the tactics of their oppressors.
First, oppressed groups often exhibit self-hatred and dislike for members of their own group.
As it happens, Cato is a fierce tiger when it comes to advocating for oppressed tobacco firms.
She grew up as a member of this oppressed proletariat that Marx and Engels wrote about.
Domestic servitude has only been escaped by passing it down to another cadre of oppressed women.
He has killed hundreds of thousands of people and tortured and oppressed countless others.
The besetting sins of oppressed people may include self-denial, passivity and complicity in their own oppression.
You may feel oppressed by traditions and traditional people in the family if you allow them to interfere in your life.
It seems hopeless, until Marc meets Lily, the oppressed, bitter girl, betrothed to Marc's prep school enemy.
These are men begging to be oppressed by the female leg, preferably sheathed in silk.
Transformed by the Eucharist we have received, we are sent to minister Jesus' presence to the lonely, downtrodden, and oppressed.
Soka Gakkai leaders had been oppressed during World War II, when Shinto was Japan's dominant religion.
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In the yugoslavian sectors of Macedonia, however, most Macedonians felt oppressed and restricted.
This decretal is the efficacious remedy that will restore peace to my oppressed conscience, and joy to my bruised heart.
For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down,Myself could else outfrown false fortune's frown.
Demagogues had not instilled in the minds of the ignorant that to be governed was to be oppressed.
Gaming relieved me from that insuperable listlessness by which I was oppressed.
In June it was now miliary-pustular, and not seldom erysipelatous, while the throat was less oppressed.
His sympathy had been always with the oppressed, and he had now become their defender.
Now, I can relieve your mind from part of the load by which it has been justly oppressed.
We are apt to be fond of any body that will side with us, when oppressed or provoked.
But the thing that most oppressed her was to see the heart of his father so turned from the youth.
The oppressed needs the stimulator and firer, because he lacks the independence and faculty for initiative.
It is like an iron country, and the spirit is oppressed by its rigor and melancholy.
The air was oppressed with symphonious sounds, and the ear filled with a tumult of harmony.
Those Sakkara pyramids lack the majesty of the Pyramids, and one looks at the amorphous heaps in an oppressed silence.
He was oppressed with his weariness, and he longed for peace and ease of mind to come to him.
Richard's prolonged and quiet scrutiny oppressed her slightly, necessitating change of attitude and place.
The story of sakura Sogoro, who fell a martyr to the cause of oppressed peasants, has become a classic.
Yes, I am a little oppressed just now with overwork, nor is this avoidable.
She felt oppressed by the hardness, the 136 relentlessness, of his words, his manner.
My reader must not imagine that the prevailing silence of the house oppressed me.
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