View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Oppressed.
Oppressed meaning
Subject to oppression.
Example sentences (20)
And the oppressed Rwandan people are brothers and sisters of the oppressed Congolese.
What’s really going on in Canada is that disabled people are being oppressed, disabled women are being oppressed and the rest of the country is looking away from us.
Boal was of the opinion that only the oppressed are able to free the oppressed.
According to most of the people I interviewed, the armed groups also consider the forest eco-guards as predators who have oppressed the local populations since the colonial era.
And his strength is in the history of the oppressed and distressed people.
And in that feeling, I feel solidarity with oppressed peoples in the present.
And there is a large, oppressed, and population, which presents the next great civil rights struggle for America.
Another song of his that has political relevance is "Redemption Song" which urged the oppressed to emancipate themselves from mental.
Any compromise of that principle discredits the left in the eyes of oppressed peoples.
As shown in Zack Giallongo’s Star Wars: Ewoks - Shadows of Endor, the Duloks and Ewoks were both oppressed by the Galactic Empire when the Imperial military first arrived on Endor.
As was confirmed in November, the aspects of international law that provide pathways to secession to colonised or oppressed nations do not apply to Scotland.
At the core of the divine action of epic decolonization in Part 2 is something new: neither anger at and hatred of the oppressors nor vengeance, but rather compassion for the oppressed—for our own unliberated, devalued selves.
At the other extreme are those who want to offer all those oppressed and under attack in other countries the opportunity to find success in the U.S. and a path to citizenship.
Bebe was inspired by Trump and his ideology and believed that his misogyny was a focal point for feminist rage, as his victory would be liberating for oppressed women, allowing them to fully unleash their anger.
Coming from a community that oppressed her into silence, Quiet's wish is to find her place in this dark, chaotic world.
For nearly half an hour, Thompson praised the NAACP for its history of significant victories on behalf of not just African Americans, but other oppressed and working-class people, since its founding in 1909 and its existence in Mississippi since 1928.
He continues to defend that position, underlining the complications that can arise when two historically-oppressed groups clash.
He said in Peru the opposite is happening — his people are still so oppressed many try to hide their Quechua identity and would rather acknowledge their one drop of white blood than self-identify as Indigenous.
If we address the inequalities that affect the most oppressed people, the whole of society will benefit," continues Rhau.
I know what it’s like as a Traveller to be oppressed.