Top Oppression Quotes
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither...
Frederick Douglass
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society, class, class struggle, class warfare, conspiracy, denial, ignorance, inequity, justice, oppression
Oppression Definition
(n.) The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
(n.) That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
(n.) A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
(n.) Ravishment; rape.