Sentence examples for oppressed before from inspiring English sources

Women were oppressed in the United States during most of its first two centuries; people of African descent were oppressed before the dismantling of Jim Crow laws.

People were oppressed before the riots.

It is, instead, a product of the larger cultural forces that left Weiner feeling oppressed long before she became a writer.

For a brief instant in 2011, motivated by a hope for a better future sparked by the revolutionary moment, they supported the very people who the "before" regime oppressed for decades.

Worst of all, they are reviled as outsiders in their own country, descendants of an Ethiopian army that is said to have crossed the Red Sea to oppress Yemen before the arrival of Islam.

"We're seeing around the world people discovering a voice, the voice of the underdog, the voice of people who have been repressed and oppressed shouting louder than ever before and that is exactly what happens in the show".

Jemima was oppressed by a feeling she'd never had before with Finch; as if Finch did not, in truth, like her very much.

But what, Ms. Musawi thought, of the Shiites, who never counted before and were viciously oppressed?

"Before writing it I felt oppressed by Christianity because it's responsible for so much persecution of Jews; since I wrote it I think of Jesus as my friend.

"This mighty mass of suffering and injustice rose before me like a mountain — it oppressed me with its hugeness and difficulty — it literally made me sick," he said.

Long before the Iranian revolution, Saudi Shi'ites were oppressed by the KSA's ruling Wahhabi order.