Once Oppressed

Tension reigns between the once-oppressed blacks and the hated white “Afrikaners” who are now a minority but are still in control of the police, the military and the economy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The election of this man, mesmeric since I first heard of him in Illinois four years ago and read his memoir, may symbolise the advance of a once-oppressed group of Americans, and by proxy of non-whites the world over. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The country, or much of it, has longed for such a figure, a man from the once-oppressed race whose rise to power will atone for the sins of slavery and racial stigmatization. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Many of those who lived well under the system were unable to see its crimes for what they were, making them dismissive or uncomprehending when the once-oppressed began to express their own political demands. ❋ Caryl, Christian (2007)

And given Europe's history with fascism and popular susceptibility to demagogues, one can understand how the British government would be particularly sensitive about a seeming crossbreed of Adolf Hitler and Elmer Gantry setting foot on English soil so as to shout bigoted insults about a once-oppressed minority group. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The once-oppressed indigenous reindeer herders in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia began celebrating Feb. 6 as their national day in 1993. ❋ Unknown (2009)