repression

• Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it Helen acquired language by practice and habit rather than by study of rules and definitions. —  Story of My Life
• Jewish intellectuals oppose racism, repression, and injustice almost everywhere in the world and yet it is still unacceptable - indeed, for some, it's an act of heresy - to oppose it when Israel is the oppressor. —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
• That system ultimately exhausted itself with the heavy burden of violence and repression, the long assault on human dignity, and the unsustainable socialist economy. —  Spero News
• For many years the Catholic Bishops of America have strenuously fought for migrants and against systems of repression, actively involved in promoting immigration reforms which encourage legality and respect for human rights. —  Spero News
• Praising the US bishops for having "strenuously fought for migrants and against systems of repression, actively involved in promoting immigration reforms which encourage legality and respect for human rights," the article slams as "ineffectiveness and violence" the 700-mile fence between the US-Mexico border currently under construction. —  Whispers in the Loggia

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