This method possesses the inappreciable advantage of relieving us from the mental strain which would otherwise oppress us. |
You can only oppress a community for so long before they will fight with toothpicks against machine guns. |
In this latter view, absolute truth and creedal faith are seen as fundamentalisms that not only oppress but foster violence. |
As a country's economy grows, more men gain the material strength to exploit and oppress women. |
His reputation was as a conciliator and latitudinarian, anxious not to oppress the dissenters. |
It argues that the modern world fosters institutions and ideas that exploit and oppress people and degrade and destroy the environment. |