Sentence examples for endured oppression from inspiring English sources

Most of the stories we tell ourselves are about victims who have endured oppression, racism and cruelty.

First and foremost, this is an extraordinary victory for the people of the former Yugoslavia, who endured oppression and deprivation, who saw through the propaganda, who took their country back with nothing but courage, principle and patriotism.

We want help in achieving justice for our people who lost their land and freedom decades ago, and in providing security for a region that has long endured oppression and suffering.

Certainly there were Pilgrims and pioneers who were pitifully in need, Europeans who had faced persecution or endured oppression where they were born.

I know I have privilege that non-trans women don't, but I also endure oppressions that are pretty much unique to women of trans history.

It seems minor on face value but was in fact a gesture of significant note, a slap in the face to rugby league and those who have had to endure the oppression that other code has inflicted upon the 13-man game for 120 years.

The sort of oppression endured by the women in "Kadosh," of course, is not limited to ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Alemayehu, like those who are today crossing borders to flee violence and oppression, endured a forced migration.

This week's Jewish Chronicle (subscription) reports that a Palestine Solidarity Campaign spokesman expressed strong support for the boycott of World Pride Jerusalem, saying: "We invite people to take a solidarity trip to occupied Palestine instead and see for themselves the oppression endured by the Palestinian people".

They have endured decades of oppression and violence, and nonetheless, they exhibit a resolve and an inner strength that seems super-human.

Pope Francis denounced how extremists around the world are "perverting" religion to justify violence as he arrived Sunday in Albania, a Balkan nation where Christians and Muslims endured brutal religious oppression under communism but today live and work together peacefully.