Sentence examples for oppress it from inspiring English sources

The mysterious spat deepened further when Winter himself told The Independent that he was "happy to be involved" in the project, which he said cuts the Muslim community free of the "negative images which oppress it".

If you're a politician and you want things to work never challenge the resilience of humanity, never oppress it because if you oppress it it will blow you up.

The progressive types' gravitation toward liberty, change and growth versus those who are regressive and not only don't accept change but try to oppress it every chance they get is another very visible form of deep chasms that separate one spirit from another.

When a minority group is oppressed it is the only way of drawing attention to its predicament.

Even once it had stopped purposely killing its citizens in large numbers, it oppressed them, it poisoned them with a toxic environment, it stuffed their ears continually with nonsense, it demanded their absolute passivity.

They oppressed it until they killed it," added another activist.

This wasn't because I was oppressed, it was because I was horny, naive and desperate for attention - in that regard, I think I was completely normal.

People who argued for such a state, he wrote, "have only one purpose to preserve the status quo…A self-serving state destroys society, oppresses it and in the end destroys itself.

In the U.S. I often get asked, 'What does it feel like to be oppressed?' It's a huge factor in developing myself to prove that not only Arab women but Muslim women can be leaders.

That's just being raised in a society that oppresses it.

He knew that "men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it".