oppressed people
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoppressedandpeople
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oppressed
adjective
uk/əˈprest/us/əˈprest/
governed in an unfair and cruel way and prevented from having opportunities ...
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people
noun[plural]
uk/ˈpiː.pəl/us/ˈpiː.pəl/
men, women, ...
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(Definition ofoppressedandpeoplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There must be security for all, includingoppressedpeopleand also the 20 000 to 40 000 children who will die of hunger next year.
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That is where the pooroppressedpeopleexist.
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It is no longer an area in whichoppressedpeopleare simply searching for their freedom.
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They are often the poorest and mostoppressedpeoplein the world.
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That is dangerous rhetoric, and completely ignored the struggles of poor andoppressedpeoplearound the world.
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How canoppressedpeople—people in fear—have the impetus to demonstrate that they want change?
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I should not like theoppressedpeopleto become oppressors themselves.
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They are not populated byoppressedpeoplewho are anxious to throw off the colonial yoke.
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We are always doing it to help pooroppressedpeople.
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When you have a classless society you can abolish distatorships, because it will not then be necessary to rest privilege upon the shoulders of anoppressedpeople.
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We hear of the many millions ofoppressedpeople, but we do not hear so often of the measures that are being taken for raising them.
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On that flimsy foundation is built a case in which you shed tears of sympathy with the pooroppressedpeoplewho only exist in your imagination.
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It is better for those countries, foroppressedpeopleand for sport itself that we should continue the dialogue of sport by playing with those countries.
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The whole effort of these years, is to build for this harassed andoppressedpeoplea home, with everything that that word "home" connotes.
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They have created a spirit of national pride, enthusiasm, purpose, energy, and will to work that has stirred the imagination of countless millions ofoppressedpeopleall over the world.
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Kwaito is a music that came from a once hated andoppressedpeople, but it is now sweeping the nation.
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Through praxis,oppressedpeoplecan acquire a critical awareness of their own condition, and, with their allies, struggle for liberation.
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The way thatoppressedpeoplesurvive is by making fun of the people who oppress them.
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Are their national aspirations any less worthy of respect than those of any otheroppressedpeople?
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