Sentence examples for heart of oppression from inspiring English sources

Enlistment also offered the opportunity to rebel against the heart of oppression: Southern slaveholders.

Indeed, in this year of black resistance, the message of Finn's character appears to be that it is only those people who have lived nearest the heart of the heart of oppression that can dismantle its deadly structure is especially poignant.

This is some intergalactic peak blackness right here: it was black sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968 who were so close to the heart of oppression that none other than Martin Luther King Jr thought they were key to taking down a system of death, too.

As I recently said when participating in a Women Under Siege forum on victim-blaming, explaining context and shifting the focus from individual people to the systems that produce them isn't a mentality of victimization, it's a critique of the deeply entrenched, destructive attitudes at the heart of violence and oppression, and the first steps toward dismantling them.

At the heart of any theory about oppression, there exists the idea of the oppressor being oppressed as well; we just often do the job for them.

She gave an impassioned speech from the heart, of living under the vilest oppression in America.

He made his Broadway debut in 1960 in "The Long Dream," a stage adaptation of a novel by Richard Wright, playing a black undertaker's son who discovers his father's complicity in the racial oppression at the heart of small-town life.

The Movie," a documentary about the destruction of the earth's soil), rage against oppression (as with "Heart of Time," a drama set against the Zapatista struggle in Chiapas, Mexico) and emotional engagement (in films like "The Greatest," about a family and the loss of its teenage son).

She was also unique in how she demonstrated through her actions, rather than by lecturing, that at the heart of our environmental dilemma is human oppression, not difficult trade-offs between man and nature.

"The army's hearts are dead / The honor in them is dead / The age of oppression will end / The people shall overcome".

So it is that LGBT people of faith become the objects of oppression perpetrated by faith leaders who claim to have their pastoral care at heart.