Sentence examples for oppressed for the from inspiring English sources

Parks captures the stark contrast between the home, where a mother and father sit proudly in front of their wedding portrait, and the world outside, where families are excluded, separated and oppressed for the color of their skin.

And from here on in, Christians would swap the rags of the oppressed for the ermine of high office.

It seems to me that given our history as a nation that has been a beacon of hope for the oppressed, for the downtrodden, that I very strongly disagree with those Republican candidates who say, you know what, we've got to turn our backs on women and children who left their home with nothing, nothing at all.

Roman Catholics have been oppressed for upholding the spiritual authority of the Pope; Tibetan Buddhists for revering the Dalai Lama, and Xinjiang Muslims for espousing Islamic community.

And finally Myanmar — a k a Burma — a beautiful land oppressed for most of the last 50 years by one of the more eccentrically awful military juntas.

Daleep Mukarji, the Director of Christian Aid, has given his full support to the Archbishops' appeal: In Lent we give something up, not for our own good, but to join in solidarity with the hungry, the homeless and the oppressed for whom going without is not an option but their everyday experience.

As a Kurd, he belongs to a minority that was oppressed for years by the Syrian government.

Or to belong to a social class, gender or ethnic group which has been economically oppressed for centuries by the establishment.

It's certainly a vast improvement over a country in which millions were oppressed for being born into the wrong caste or gender or family.

"And it is a gender thing, because clearly one gender has been intimately oppressed for far longer than the other.

"We are a people who have been oppressed for 60 years," said Abu Thabet, the nickname for a Free Syrian Army fighter in Aleppo.