In his view, fighting racism wasn't enough; white people who wanted to oppose oppression would have to do battle with whiteness itself.
The Guardian is committed to promoting social justice around the world, and to using its journalism and its platforms to expose and oppose oppression wherever it exists.
You could contribute to a candidate or a cause that opposes oppression.
His life was an inspiration not just in South Africa but throughout the world, to all who are oppressed and deprived, and to all who are opposed to oppression and deprivation.
Matt Wagner: They are both opposed to oppression.
But leaving the political, sociological and ideological factors aside, I was amazed to discover the degree of hostility there is to trans people, particularly from those who are supposedly opposed to oppression and prejudice.
In 1830 Lawrence traveled to Calcutta (now Kolkata) with his brother Henry and then to Delhi, where he served for 19 years as an assistant judge, magistrate, and tax collector and where he came to oppose the oppression of the peasantry by the talukdars (tax collectors).
In the absence of actual reform, Democrats led by Obama seem to stress the need for understanding on both sides – as if police violence were the product of misunderstanding as opposed to oppression at the hands of an armed appendage of the state.
I hope that you still oppose the oppression in all of its forms.
As opposed to "oppression," I define "social justice" as the concept that local, national and global communities functioning where everyone has equal access to and equitable distribution of the rights, benefits, privileges and resources, and where everyone can live freely unencumbered by social constructions of hierarchical positions of domination and subordination".
