Sentence examples for they were oppressed from inspiring English sources

I never taught my nonWhite children they were oppressed or marginalized people.

It presumes that many people became radical after they were oppressed.

Another said she felt sorry for them because they were oppressed by men.

Women rejected the characterisation that they were oppressed, and the schools wrote to Morgan, saying the notice had been misrepresented.

For a time the Townsends lived in Beijing, but by 1949 life in revolutionary China was dangerous and they were oppressed by local demagogues of the government.

This makes for a monotonous and ahistorical narrative: under more tolerant caliphs the Jews prospered, yet still suffered isolated attacks; under crueller ones they were oppressed, yet individual Muslims still performed acts of kindness, and so on for 12 centuries.

And the weird and complicated thing was, the people who were oppressing me were usually pretty nice people and were being oppressed themselves, and would joke about the fact that they were oppressing me and being oppressed.

All they know is they are hungry and oppressed and they don't even know they are oppressed.

The oppressed must be freed from the confines by which they are oppressed and have their narratives told presently and in history.

They are oppressed greatly because of US policy.

So Muslim women are caught in a gap; they're either told they're oppressed or they're not oppressed.