Unjust Laws and Oppressive Decrees

Oppression isn't just bad people doing bad things. Oppression is also the product of oppressive laws and political systems. As Dorothy Day put it: "Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."

Isaiah 10.1-2
Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,
to deprive the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,
making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

There are "unjust laws" and "oppressive decrees" that "deprive the poor of their rights and withhood justice from the oppressed."

And woe to them who make such laws and decrees.