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What worries me however is that this form of censorship still might restrict the free speech of people in opressed countries.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Clive Thompson’s nuanced article on Google in China 2006
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And soon even Zapatistas will concentrate their machismo on their main task: to free the opressed from the opressor (whoever the oppressed and the opressors will be) while gallantly changing diapers of their babies, because they'll learn their women, trained by the non-profit working Scandinavian damsel, might be a lot more effective in furthering their revolutionary cause.
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Could it possibly be that the actors salaries are based on their respective box office draw? sean damn for someone experiencing sexism, as some would lead you to believe, 27 million seems like quite a nice chunk of change for being so "opressed"
Harrison Ford Earned Almost 2.5 Times More Than The Top Earning Actress in 2008 | /Film 2009
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In fact far too many people, especially on the lef, t throw around this "opressed" word way to much.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Note to non-parents in the audience... 2005
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I had to ask my 11 year old nephew to translate for me. but we would do good to remember that a working class man are probably more "opressed" (or at least less favoured in society) that a really affluent white woman.
Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk Nichi Hodgson 2010
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The passion that was once seen from the my people and our great history during the civil rights, passion I once seen from the destruction of the Berlin wall, the same passion and pain I seen from the inncocent and opressed women and children of Palestine.
Global Voices in English » Iran: Storm of protest after election 2009
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Cinderella – Classic, opressed girl breaking out of her shell and finding a magical world filled of love.
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Cherry Blossoms, opressed serfs and Major Domo Havock instructing the younger bushido warriors.
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Garrison seems to spend half his time in his pleasant fantasy world of Lake Woebegon, and the other half in a much nastier fantasy world in which he, and people like him, are the only protection that the vast masses of the opressed have from the evil, baby-eating “others” that he uses the generic term “Republican” to describe.
Add Garrison Keillor to the ‘Kill Off Republicans’ List. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Cinderella – Classic, opressed girl breaking out of her shell and finding a magical world filled of love.
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