Sentences with 'oppressed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word oppressed and other words derived from it.
• « Not only were the 19th century tsars arch-conservatives, but the vast majority of the Russian population had no interest in political change. They were among the poorest, least educated and most oppressed in Europe: the Russian serfs. »
• « A useful definition of feminism by historians Bonnie Anderson and Judith Zinsser in A History of Their Own states that feminism is the claim that women are fully human, not secondary or inferior to men, that women have been oppressed throughout history and that women must recognise their solidarity with other women in order to end that oppression and create a more just and equitable society. »