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Ben Nevis the name of the ship that landed in Galveston, Texas in 1854 with a congregation of approximately 500 Slavic immigrants who sought freedom from cultural oppression and religious persecution. [1/2 definitions]
color line any institutionalized separation of races that is based on skin color and that results in social and economic discrimination and oppression; color bar.
dystopia an imagined state or society in which injustice, oppression, and often terror are the norm and in which, typically, a totalitarian form of government has control over all aspects of life. (Cf. utopia.) [1/2 definitions]
freedom fighter a person who participates in armed rebellion against an established government, with the expressed aim of freeing the people from oppression.
lib (informal) liberation, esp. from oppression, inequality, or persecution.
liberate to free or release, esp. from bondage, oppression, or captivity. [1/2 definitions]
liberation theology a kind of Catholic theology, practiced esp. by clergy members in Central and South America, advocating social activism against political, economic, or social oppression.
liberty freedom from bondage, oppression, or captivity. [1/5 definitions]
tyrant a ruler who governs absolutely and with arbitrary or unjust cruelty and oppression. [1/3 definitions]