Oppressor
noun
A person who treats others in a cruel or unfair way, especially using their authority or power.
The dictator was seen as an oppressor by the citizens due to his harsh policies.
Often appears as...
- cruel oppressor
- brutal oppressor
noun
A person who treats others in a cruel or unfair way, especially using their authority or power.
The dictator was seen as an oppressor by the citizens due to his harsh policies.
Often appears as...
- cruel oppressor
- brutal oppressor
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Authority Misuse
The word 'oppressor' often indicates someone abusing their power to control or harm others.
The oppressive regime jailed dissenters.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Oppressor' carries negative emotions, showing deep injustice and suffering caused by the abuser.
The statue was torn down as it represented an oppressor from history.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
Used frequently in historical or political contexts to describe leaders who deny freedoms or rights.
The textbooks described the colonial rulers as oppressors.
Pro Tip 1/3Authority Misuse
The word 'oppressor' often indicates someone abusing their power to control or harm others.
The oppressive regime jailed dissenters.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Oppressor' carries negative emotions, showing deep injustice and suffering caused by the abuser.
The statue was torn down as it represented an oppressor from history.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
Used frequently in historical or political contexts to describe leaders who deny freedoms or rights.
The textbooks described the colonial rulers as oppressors.
Pro Tip 1/3Authority Misuse
The word 'oppressor' often indicates someone abusing their power to control or harm others.
The oppressive regime jailed dissenters.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Oppressor' carries negative emotions, showing deep injustice and suffering caused by the abuser.
The statue was torn down as it represented an oppressor from history.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
Used frequently in historical or political contexts to describe leaders who deny freedoms or rights.
The textbooks described the colonial rulers as oppressors.
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Video examples
Ugly History: The Khmer...
casting one group as oppressor and the other as oppressed. But many Cambodians live with a more complex reality. Everyone suffered, even those who contributed to the suffering of others. This perception doesn’t excuse any acts of violence. But how a society remembers traumatic events
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Young-ha Kim: Be an...
I wish I knew what Picasso said back then. I could have argued better with my teacher. Unfortunately, the little artists within us are choked to death before we get to fight against the oppressors of art. They get locked in. That's our tragedy.
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Kavita Ramdas: Radical...
allies like my father, who couldn't help his sister but has helped three daughters pursue their dreams. Maybe this is because feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor --
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What is a butt tuba and...
The text of the "Smithfield Decretals" details the Church’s laws and punishments for lawbreakers. But the margins show a fox being hanged by geese, a possible allusion to the common people turning on their powerful oppressors.
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Jorge Ramos: Why...
Neutrality helps only the oppressor, never the victim." And he's completely right. We journalists are obligated to take sides in certain circumstances; in cases of racism, discrimination, corruption, lying to the public,
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A brief history of...
In the 19th century, all over Central and South America, people revolted to gain independence from Spain. In the newly sovereign nations, people continued to speak the language of their former oppressors.
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A Saudi woman who dared...
study and he made headlines around the world and only then video is is so empowering to mock your oppressor it strips it away of his strongest weapon fear this system is based on ultra conservative
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SC Finalist PIPE National...
freedom they value freedom very highly for the oppressed and for the oppressors I study using the 3 R's well the three years are the electric I beta and it usually helps the first stars to read
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America's native...
in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say my god what are these people doing to themselves they're killing each other they're killing
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A Saudi woman who dared...
and it made headlines around the world. And only then we realized it's so empowering to mock your oppressor. It strips it away of its strongest fear.
Video examples
Ugly History: The Khmer...
casting one group as oppressor and the other as oppressed. But many Cambodians live with a more complex reality. Everyone suffered, even those who contributed to the suffering of others. This perception doesn’t excuse any acts of violence. But how a society remembers traumatic events
Video examples
Young-ha Kim: Be an...
I wish I knew what Picasso said back then. I could have argued better with my teacher. Unfortunately, the little artists within us are choked to death before we get to fight against the oppressors of art. They get locked in. That's our tragedy.
Video examples
Kavita Ramdas: Radical...
allies like my father, who couldn't help his sister but has helped three daughters pursue their dreams. Maybe this is because feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor --
Video examples
What is a butt tuba and...
The text of the "Smithfield Decretals" details the Church’s laws and punishments for lawbreakers. But the margins show a fox being hanged by geese, a possible allusion to the common people turning on their powerful oppressors.
Video examples
Jorge Ramos: Why...
Neutrality helps only the oppressor, never the victim." And he's completely right. We journalists are obligated to take sides in certain circumstances; in cases of racism, discrimination, corruption, lying to the public,
Video examples
A brief history of...
In the 19th century, all over Central and South America, people revolted to gain independence from Spain. In the newly sovereign nations, people continued to speak the language of their former oppressors.
Video examples
A Saudi woman who dared...
study and he made headlines around the world and only then video is is so empowering to mock your oppressor it strips it away of his strongest weapon fear this system is based on ultra conservative
Video examples
SC Finalist PIPE National...
freedom they value freedom very highly for the oppressed and for the oppressors I study using the 3 R's well the three years are the electric I beta and it usually helps the first stars to read
Video examples
America's native...
in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say my god what are these people doing to themselves they're killing each other they're killing
Video examples
A Saudi woman who dared...
and it made headlines around the world. And only then we realized it's so empowering to mock your oppressor. It strips it away of its strongest fear.
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Quote examples
Abraham Lincoln
American President
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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Alveda King
American Clergyman
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
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Julian Fellowes
English Actor
I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed.
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Paulo Freire
Brazilian Educator
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.
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James Baldwin
American Novelist
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
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Georg Buchner
German Dramatist
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
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Jonathan Mayhew
American Clergyman
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
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Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
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George Jackson
American Activist
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
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Emil Cioran
Romanian Philosopher
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
Quote examples
Alveda King
American Clergyman
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
Quote examples
Julian Fellowes
English Actor
I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed.
Quote examples
Paulo Freire
Brazilian Educator
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.
Quote examples
James Baldwin
American Novelist
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
Quote examples
Georg Buchner
German Dramatist
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
Quote examples
Jonathan Mayhew
American Clergyman
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
Quote examples
Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
Quote examples
George Jackson
American Activist
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
Quote examples
Emil Cioran
Romanian Philosopher
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
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