Sentence examples for and oppressed in a from inspiring English sources

While the character of Captain Larsen remained both victim and oppressed in a capitalist hierarchy, he also became a symbol of fascism.

We are tempted to think in terms of victors and vanquished, oppressors and oppressed, in a way that purges analysis of any subtlety and useful insight.

Kate is persecuted and oppressed in horrible ways, but she lives as she is.

Many experts on shame believe that, as John Bradshaw says in his book Healing the Shame That Binds You, LGBT children "are the most viciously shamed and oppressed in our society".

On St George's day civic events should be held to mark the contribution to national life of martyrs, minorities and migrants – with particular attention to the plight of the excluded, the displaced and oppressed in history and today.

There is privilege accompanying a thin body (Bacon 2010) and regardless of gender, sex, sexuality, and/or appearance, obese people are limited and oppressed in their options to express gender through clothing.

Historically, women have been and still are vulnerable and oppressed in so many places in the world.

Assuaging and coddling fragile white racism inevitably shifts the window through which we observe that racism, forcing us to see both the oppressors and the oppressed in a similar light.

Would it feel oppressed in a cage but unable to communicate its pain and anguish?

None of these clannish people, who bear "an ancestral memory of being oppressed in a country they'd never been to," trust her on this murder case, which escalates into unspeakable savagery as the bodies pile up.

Is to be oppressed "as a woman" to be oppressed in a particular way?