Sentence examples for lived through oppression from inspiring English sources

The four black male protagonists have lived through oppression and narrowly avoided becoming embroiled in gangsterism.

President Obama has described Justice Sotomayor in empathetic terms -- a life story that would lead her to understand people who live through oppression and deprivation and what it does to them.

Pretendians also have not lived through the systemic oppression that actual Native people face on a daily basis.

Remember, this is a state that has lived through forty plus years of hellish oppression.

"You don't understand discrimination and oppression unless you've lived through it," says Robinson, an attorney for the Provosts.

As Hehir noted, while John Paul grew up in Poland under the foreign oppression of Soviet rule, Francis lived through the military repression of Argentina's "dirty war" during the 1970s, when Catholics turned on each other and the church itself was complicit in human rights violations — not the liberating force it was in other regions.

Many younger Poles, even those who lived through Communism, are far enough removed from its oppressions now that they have a more objective perspective on its legacy, including its architecture.

We lived through Stalin.

"I lived through this.

He's lived through two civil wars that have flattened the capital of his country to a mudslide of rubble and 11 September when his people turned, overnight, from victims of oppression to the kith and kin of al-Qaeda.

I lived through the war.