Word: oppresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against English Capitalism that the fatal blow must be struck! . . . Five per cent of Englishmen are the biggest property owners. They oppress not only the remaining population but also thousands of peoples of other nationalities- Indians, Persians, Chinese, etc.! Each English capitalist forces about 100 English workers and several hundred workers in England's colonies and the oppressed countries to drudge for him. . . . These enslaved people must unite! Yes, we must array ourselves against the English bourgeoisie. We must seize the English Imperialist by the throat and trample him underfoot...
There has been much talk by members of the present Administration in Washington that the New Deal is the friend of the common man, and that the only library which they are trying to suppress is the liberty of the wealthy to oppress the many poor. We should be pleased to have the Administration answer whether or not it constitutes oppression when...
...myth of Capital as the oppressor rests upon a verbal confusion of Capital with capitalists, a factual confusion ot capitalists with managers, and a misconception of the powers and desires of managers. Material capital does, of course, oppress certain forms of labor (or more truly of mental capital) when a new invention replaces their skill by a machine and requires them to fall back on mere unskilled labor as their offering to purchase the world's goods. But in the long run it is a great aid and weapon of labor...
...debts and reparations, You're a blight on all the nations, You embitter their relations, You're the chief of all causations Of their woes and tribulations, Of the problems that perplex them, Of the ills that grieve and vex them, Of the burdens that oppress them, And the sufferings that distress them, The anxieties that fret them, And the dangers that beset them...
...charges that "Facist" committees had called on Atlanta employers of Negroes, ordered them, under threats of violence, to discharge their black help and hire jobless Black Shirts, in violation of a Federal statute providing ten years in jail and a $5,000 fine for persons who "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the constitution or laws...