Definition of Oppression

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Oppression

The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.

That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.

A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.

Ravishment; rape.

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Oppression Quotations

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
Confucius

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison

Oppression Translations

oppression in Italian is oppressione

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