Sentence examples for class oppression from inspiring English sources

However, there is a more oblique sort of racial and class oppression going on here.

Nor is Princeton "a den of racist iniquity or sexist degradation or class oppression," Kennedy said.

TO THE anti-globalisers, the corporation is a devilish instrument of environmental destruction, class oppression and imperial conquest.

Much was made of the scandal by certain leftists, who saw the sisters' violence as a blow against class oppression.

Overcoming it thus requires not just anti-fascist attitudes but also a destruction of its roots in class oppression.

The working class was full of diversity, they argued, and class oppression was not the only injustice that many working-class people suffered.

Although Confucius initially escaped severe censure by Mao, in the early 1970s he became "No. 1 hooligan," the embodiment of the hated "four olds" (old culture, old ideology, old customs and old habits), a symbol of ruling-class oppression.

Aruni's former tutor, Kirthi Bandara (Senaka Wijesinghe), turns up as a firebrand and delivers homilies about upper-class oppression, morbidly intoning "I come from the dispossessed" and "This soil is stained with sweat and blood".

This is and always has been, she opines, a world of interlocking oppression: the ruling class oppresses the workers, the Gentiles the Jews, the husbands the wives, the parents the children, the whites the blacks, and so on.

Home Boy avoids sincere or incisive scrutiny of the relationship between social class and oppression.

"Skybox I" begins as a reading assignment, with four historical texts on race, class and oppression on a large light box.