Sentence examples for oppression saying from inspiring English sources

He accused the Syrian President Bashar al Assad of oppression, saying civilians in the city did not have drinking water or bread.

When Ali made war on war, and held out as a conscientious objector against the bloodbath in Vietnam, he offered black folk and other allies a lesson on how to link local and global forms of oppression, saying that his conscience "won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America.

"We want to make sure people aren't re-experiencing oppression," says Aurora.

"Their battle-cry is not 'Less oppression!'" says Renato Barreiros, who has directed a documentary about them.

Because of that, all that Libyans were known for was Gaddafi and his oppression," said Ferake.

"This will be a trial of the Israeli occupation and oppression," said one of them, Ahmed Tibi.

"You can't run roughshod over people because they're protesting your oppression," said Cat Brooks, an organiser of both protests.

World leaders and campaigners must step up efforts to break the cycle of oppression, said Unicef's executive director, Anthony Lake.

"I was with this team through the dark ages, during the oppression," said Moore, a 1991 Maryland graduate.

"The extremism we saw is the result of oppression," said Mr. Gheriani, a graduate of Michigan State University who is married to a lawyer who helped organize the first protests.

"The authorities have realized that they can survive now only through provocations and total oppression," said Inna Kuley, the head of Solidarity, a Belarussian rights group.