Sentence examples for generations of oppression from inspiring English sources

Reconstruction aid, Mr. Salih said, "will help Iraqis throw off the shackles of generations of oppression, genocide, mass graves, corruption, stagnation and incompetence".

"You can't undo generations of oppression and abuse in six months or even three or four years," Lavell-Harvard says.

Her life is the product of generations of oppression, bigotry, and neglect which explodes into a rage without an outlet.

(emphasis is mine) Too many "reformers" believe that the problem is not generations of oppression, but callous educators who punish students for rebelling against ineffective classroom instruction.

It is an isolation of the soul, created over generations of oppression, racism, and disastrous social policies that undermined the basic human rights of individuals, families, and entire nations.

In the Qur'an's account, God creates from nothing by simply saying "Be!" According to Farrakhan, God came to America, visited families and communities that had been reduced to nothing by generations of oppression, and turned them into a nation of gods with that same power to say "Be!" and remake themselves.

After a generation of oppression, each major group -- Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds -- claims to have suffered more than others, and each doubts others will treat them fairly after the Americans hand over power.

The stain of generations of racial oppression is still visible in our society, and the determination to hasten its removal remains vital.

His singular combination of strength and sensitivity, dignity and self-discipline, made him the musical embodiment of the "soul force" that Martin Luther King, Jr., extolled in his epic "I Have a Dream" speech as the African-American counterweight to generations of racist oppression.

How long do you think it should take to dismantle twelve generations of racial oppression, not to mention Reconstruction, Jim Crow and its aftermath?

I wish he had been more explicit on the radio, however, in warning that the problems with discipline are the result of both the generations of racial oppression and decades of deindustrialization and that solutions will be hard-earned and expensive.