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"If I'm going to ask your help, you should know something about those who have oppressed us for so long."

She can think that from their point of view they are oppressed.

Other men, oppressed by what they learn of themselves in war, have also asked this question.

"A lot of the people who come to the city have been oppressed in other places," he said.

And the people next door oppress me all night long.

She felt oppressed by his lack of faith in her.

"Women have been oppressed so much in history," she says.

And, therefore, these days it is men who are oppressed, not women.

The room oppressed her with its too recent memory of pain.

It can also describe the feeling of people who are oppressed.

None of them was any use to Rose; they only oppressed her.

All her life she had been compassionate, even when oppressed.

But at the same time, maybe they know architecture because they've been oppressed by it.

When we were oppressed, it was possible to find our center in the act of resistance.

But they quickly died away, and he was oppressed by a great sadness.

For the first time in his life, he felt oppressed by living at close quarters with two other men.

China is a very proud nation, which has felt oppressed by the West for a century and a half.

"This would only make him oppress the population even more."

The house was very quiet and I felt oppressed by the empty weeks ahead.

And something about this secrecy oppressed me as it always had.

"Everything was taken by Indians and then they turn to oppress our own people."

Labor was hard, and the police guards at times oppressed the workers by force.

He could not understand why the boy felt none of the humiliation which always oppressed himself.

No longer will one social group exploit and oppress another.

Maybe that was so in a time when women were routinely oppressed, but it makes no sense any longer.