Sentence examples for instead of oppression from inspiring English sources

He suggested that if we as a country believe in Democracy and we believe that Soviet Communism was not sustainable, then we should put our faith in Democracy, encourage countries to move toward it instead of supporting regimes that deny it, and let the Soviet Union compete against freedom instead of oppression.

For example: Rastas will say "downpression" instead of "oppression".

May all of us who are privileged to serve as pastors, ministers and public figures heed Peter's words and use our position to promote justice and redemption instead of ego and oppression.

Describing a 2009 speech Obama delivered in Cairo, Trump argued that "instead of condemning the oppression of women and gays in many Muslim nations, and the systematic violations of human rights, or the financing of global terrorism, President Obama tried to draw an equivalency between our human rights record and theirs".

She rejected the politics of oppression; instead she "chose her own oppression," and started claiming to be a white gay man trapped in a black woman's body.

The millennia of oppression, instead of driving the Athenians into obtuse moroseness, have honed their wit and rendered them tough but supple, while centuries of privation have only preserved their warmth and generosity.

A big missing piece here is that Gen X professors who now occupy senior ranks at higher ed institutions around the country have been teaching intersectional feminism (instead of single-axis of oppression feminism aka "gender oppression is the single overarching form of oppression worldwide") for at least 10-20 years now.

"Instead of taking hurt and oppression out on their oppressor they take it out on each other.

("Could I put down 'an end to oppression' instead of 'civil liberties' on your exam?" one student asked the Western-civ professor. The professor said yes, he could).

Politics was no different to us from how it was to the Irish, except we were fighting real oppression instead of a racial or religious war.

In a nod to the many critiques of Girls surrounding race and class issues, for example, Dunham describes going back to speak at Oberlin and having a student ask, "How does it feel to be a line item in so many people's narratives of privilege and oppression?" Instead of an actual answer to the student's question, we get a self-deprecating crack.