Some battle oppressive governments.

Others battle oppressive societies.

So the question I started my talk with, who do you think is more difficult to face, oppressive governments or oppressive societies?

He defies the present government which is no less oppressive than its predecessor.

To Pharaoh and his nobles, but they turned arrogant. They were oppressive people.

As history points out, regimes become oppressive when they're fearful about keeping control.

And those who, when an oppressive wrong is done to them, they take revenge.

And the people of Noah before that for they were most unjust and most oppressive.

They will say People power will work only if the regime is not too oppressive.

Maybe the anti hero fights and succeeds in destroying the oppressive government, with a lot of impossible luck.

and has made me dutiful to my mother. He has not made me oppressive, nor bereft of God's blessings.

And those who, when an oppressive wrong is inflicted on them, (are not cowed but) help and defend themselves.

If I actually had to live those journeys, and quests, and battles, that would be so oppressive to me!

They said, In God we have put our trust. Our Lord, do not make us victims of the oppressive people.

It's not just that the rules are bad because the government is too strong and oppressive, as in North Korea.

North Korea, that is on the other side of the world, and is also one of the world's most oppressive regimes.

It's taken for granted that Chinese factories are oppressive, and that it's our desire for cheap goods that makes them so.

This couch had become a dread, because of the oppressive thoughts that kept turning over in his mind when he lay there.

It is no secret that the video game industry boasts some of the most sexually objectified, stereotyped and downright oppressive portrayals of women in any medium.

let us all unite! Knowing that we are part of the same species, it is unacceptable to allow others to die due to an oppressive system.

By the time I got to Beijing in 1995, it was clear to me, the only way to achieve gender equality was to overturn centuries of oppressive tradition.

Surely Allah enjoins justice, kindness and the doing of good to kith and kin, and forbids all that is shameful, evil and oppressive. He exhorts you so that you may be mindful.

It has been less than two years since a vendor in Tunisia set himself on fire to protest the oppressive corruption in his country, and sparked what became known as the Arab Spring.

And why would you not fight in the cause of God, and the helpless men, and women, and children, cry out, Our Lord, deliver us from this town whose people are oppressive, and appoint for us from Your Presence a Protector, and appoint for us from Your Presence a Victor.

And what is the matter with you that you fight not in the cause of Allah and for the oppressed among men, women, and children who say, Our Lord, take us out of this city of oppressive people and appoint for us from Yourself a protector and appoint for us from Yourself a helper?