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Phrasal Verb: hold someone down
To control their freedom; to restrain them.
A bigot is someone that deliberately goes out of their way to hold someone down
or hurt someone else for the sake of racial superiority. ...
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Speeches on Campus - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
You cant hold someone down, oppressing them, without joining them down there in
the gutter. And so, our concern for black freedom was also, ...
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The writer Toni Morrison has stated that, "If you're going to hold someone down
you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. ...
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