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Oppression

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Oppression meaning

The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. | The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed. | A feeling of being oppressed. Special usage may include a sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude.

Example sentences (20)

He spoke about militarism having deep ties to colonial oppression, including the oppression of First Nations.

Another dynamic is introduced when we identify victims of suffering and oppression with Christ's suffering and oppression.

Most of the discussions about structural oppression usually end with the old-school advice of accepting the harsh reality, rather than building conviction to fight the oppression.

Sexual violence is “one system of oppression that connects to and intersects with other systems of oppression – they all feed off each other and support one another,” said Werner.

The fight against anti-Semitism must be linked to the wider fight against oppression — including the fight against Palestinian oppression.

For Erdogan, the oppression of the Kurds is a necessary tool to cut through the class struggle at home, allowing him to continue the oppression and exploitation of Turkey’s working class.

In short, he convinced Clemmons to help him continue his mission to help children, a mission that involved speaking out against certain forms of oppression, by adding to the decades of another kind of oppression faced by Clemmons.

It acts like physical force does in rape." citation They believe no person can be said to truly consent to their own oppression and no people should have the right to consent to the oppression of others.

They were either writhing under a hideous oppression or they were aiding and abetting that oppression.

Again, the idea is not to collapse what we know about our experiences or the oppression, but to get specific about exactly what we are talking about.

And as in the times of slavery, farm and incarcerated workers have used gardening as a way to resist their oppression.

Any talk about improving the conditions of oppression in light of the great sacrifices of Gaza is a betrayal of the Palestinian martyrs.

ASPSU’s racial prejudice, emotional battery, underrepresentation and oppression towards people of different backgrounds (race, ability, age) is hurtful to the culture of PSU, and should not, in my opinion, continue.

Ateek completely changes Jesus' meaning claiming, "The judge represented empire and people of power, hence the injustice and oppression.

Books examining race, oppression and violence dominate the nonfiction shortlist.

But almost every research going shows if you are poor, working class and experience oppression, you’ll have some form of mental distress.

Calling for a revolution always gets attention — but I think it’s going to be hard to make civility look cool when mores of any kind are considered old-school, corny, and even a sign of “white” oppression.

Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (Oxford University Press) and, co-edited with Owen Flanagan, The Moral Psychology of Anger Littlefield).

Critical race theory people into rigid categories based on perceived oppression by society.

Denver is one of more than 200 U.S. cities where historical monuments were removed — either by protesters or city officials — from public spaces in 2020, having come to symbolize slavery, racism and oppression to many.