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(Barone compares Cuba to Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, and O'Beirne calls Cuban-Americans an oppressed ethnic minority.)
Upon admission to the bar, every Colorado lawyer must recite the Lawyer's Oath, which states in part: "I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or the oppressed."
She is the mother of the mestizo race, La Raza (The People), and a political symbol for the oppressed and powerless.
Most women feel less oppressed by their husbands' pretensions to authority than by the work that falls to them because of their husbands' neglect.
I laughed out loud when I got to the part where the author insisted that although the "girls" (uh, we're known as women here in the Islamic world, too) "claimed" they weren't oppressed by the veil, they, like, really were.