Word: oppressores
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...oppression. I would like to concentrate on an example he cites of the federal government's involvement in this oppression: the Reagan Administration's "attack" on affirmative action programs. If this policy is the best Louis can muster to support his assertion that the federal government is the chief oppressor of Black people, then I think we can safely conclude that, in this case as in so many others, Louis's appeals offer more to the emotions than the intellect...
...hour ago, he is told; the client is furious. If he values his job, he had better have a good explanation. And, by the way, he can forget about taking a vacation this summer. The man eyes a paperweight on his desk and longs to throw it at his oppressor. Instead, he sits down, his stomach churning, his back muscles knotting, his blood pressure climbing. He reaches for a Maalox and an aspirin and has a sudden yearning for a dry martini, straight...
...subjects: not one of his counselors has sufficient authority to dare to oppose him." Was he describing a Tsar or a Stalin? The power alone is not unfathomable. The country itself seems both to seek subjugation and to struggle against it. It takes a special kind of oppressor to succeed in such a place. Like Brezhnev, he must appear to have sprung from the soil and descended from the sky simultaneously. He must be both the struggle and the oppression...
...wonder General Jaruzelski is such an efficient and experienced oppressor of his own people. He is a recipient of the Order of Lenin, bestowed upon him by the Soviet Union for his service during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...American of Jewish descent, I am disgusted by Israel's acts of the past five months. The Israelis may not think they have become the oppressor, but if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck and has feathers, well...