Over time the oppressed people banded together to improve their situation. From LearnThat.org.
To oppress is bad enough, but to love to do so is much worse. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
It is said that the oppressor shall be depress though by people praised, and that the oppress is at rest though by people blamed. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Slow-springing for th 'oppress'd and poor, and ripen'd now to deeds?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
The really big guys want to "oppress" and they will do everything in their power to do so!. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Horowitz: What Is the Use Of Having Power If You Don't Abuse It?] Reference
Pathetically, the far right are now arguing that granting equal rights to a tiny minority will "oppress" them. From Wordnik.com. [Daimnation!: Sully on the Ontario Court decision] Reference
To ease th 'oppress'd, and raise the sinking heart?. From Wordnik.com. [A Book About Lawyers] Reference
Well, d-- n it all! they kind of oppress me, don't you see. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Partners] Reference
For one minority group to "oppress" another is quite interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Qwaider Planet] Reference
In our eagerness not to "oppress" the majority, we'd end up oppressing the majority. From Wordnik.com. [Balderdash] Reference
If someone wishes to "oppress" me on an individual level, well ... all I can say to them is "take your best shot." percivale. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive U - The new media voice for students] Reference
Jeweller Tiffany targeted by Bushmen supporters over game park grant money for boreholes is being used to 'oppress' indigenous people in. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Gay love: When a husband or wife comes out] Reference
Our program is never to oppress, but always to assist. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB): Job] Reference
But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
That is, his stratagems to gratify his passions and to oppress and destroy the poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
The emergency law is not used to oppress freedom, but to suppress terrorism -- there is a huge difference. From Wordnik.com. ['A Long Road Ahead'] Reference
So many countries lined up together in hopes to oppress a massive force with such radical ideals and plans. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy and the Rest of His Life] Reference
These forces of neocolonialism oppress not only Third World people but also citizens in their own countries. From Wordnik.com. [How Obama Thinks] Reference
"Whatever measurable differences exist in the brain," says Andreasen, "are used to oppress and suppress women.". From Wordnik.com. [Why Girls Will Be Girls] Reference
For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
I found Serbs admired in Sittwe, Burma, where the Buddhists oppress their Muslim minorities with near-Balkan gusto. From Wordnik.com. [What It's Like Being A Serb] Reference
The Sidonians also, and Amalec, and Chanaan, oppress you, and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
Yet an elected democracy like the Milosevic regime in Serbia can oppress ethnic minorities or commit genocide as well as an unelected one. From Wordnik.com. [Don’t Boycott Israel] Reference
Aside from the flag, no piece of cloth in history has been imbued with as much power to liberate and oppress, rally and divide as the veil. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Clearly] Reference
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