Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment of, or exercise of power over, a group of individuals, often in the form of governmental authority. There are many scholars who have attempted to define opp
U.S. Capitol – oil painting by Allyn Cox – The Monroe Doctrine (1823), plus a quote from President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1940).
A metaphorical injustice eating the innocent in Guillaume Rouillé's Justicie atque Iniusticie. On the twelve legs of the beast is inscribed a variation of the twelve abuses of the De duodecim abusivis saeculi, claimed causes of injustice.