Sentence examples for Oppressed groups from inspiring English sources

Oppressed groups therefore have all the more scope to think about social reality with integrity, and to act out of this understanding with integrity.

Assigning this ontological blackness of being to Jesus allowed oppressed groups to counter prevailing and oppressive ideas of blackness as a sign of biological and intellectual inferiority.

It explores the political implications of erotophobia as it affects oppressed groups, the role of sexual shame in oppression based on sexuality and gender, and medical constructions of the sexuality of people with disabilities and others.

Black Economic Empowerment policies were developed to help oppressed groups regain a foothold in the economy.

It may be because their morale and self-esteem is lower than other, more superficially "oppressed" groups.

However, talking backstage, Arquette appeared to urge oppressed groups to fight the corner of older women being underpaid.

Thus affirmative action, for example, requires statistics about the numbers of members of oppressed racial groups employed in certain contexts, which in turn requires racial identification and categorization.

Standard liberal theories, committed to neutrality in the private sphere, seem powerless to address (or sometimes even recognize) striking and lasting inequalities for women, minorities, or historically oppressed racial groups, when these are merely the cumulative effect of individuals' free behavior.

They have said they do not seek to oppress other groups.

Disabled people should be proud to associate themselves with animals, Taylor argues, because the same ideology, ableism, oppresses both groups.

But without checks, democratically approved legislation can oppress minority groups," wrote justice Sonia Sotomayor in a dissent in which justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined her.