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- I was the walking delegate of this strike, the leader of the victims' rebellion, the defender of the oppressed, the disinherited, the exploited-and when I use these words, they have, for once, a literal meaning.3.1 Part 3 Chapter 1 — Atlantis (90% in)
- When he had gone, she felt as if the motion of time were an oppressive weight in the stillness of the house, like a stationary, half-solid mass slithering slowly into some faint elongation by a tempo that left her no measure to know whether minutes had passed or hours.3.2 Part 3 Chapter 2 — The Utopia of Greed (35% in)
There are no more uses of "oppress" in Atlas Shrugged.
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