Sentence examples for oppressed from from inspiring English sources

He proclaimed the religious exercises of such villains to be loathsome to God; on their account Israel would be oppressed from the entrance of Hamath to the Dead Sea and exiled from its land.

Save the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor, and do not be mean-spirited in your judgments.

We propose, on the contrary, to extend governmental power in order to secure the liberty of the oppressed from the oppressor.

Whether our potential is oppressed from our minds being focused on hoarding or being oppressed by class position, it's the same: we are not accessing our potential".

In all of these cases, the invocation of rights is not about protecting the oppressed from discrimination and welcoming all people into a community of equal respect, recognition, and responsibility.

And the reaction of your state legislature to decertify the popular and successful public school Ethnic Studies programs, and to ban important books like Paolo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed from Arizona schools, stands as some of the most prejudicial, discriminatory and pedagogically unjustified actions in the history of U. S. public education.

But that ardent knowledge didn't stop him from feeling oppressed, or from expressing that feeling to everyone around him.

In the street, their faces loom menacingly out of the posters for the remake of The Magnificent Seven, in which an ethnically diverse cast of outlaws and miscreants defend oppressed townsfolk from a brutal tyrant.

Therefore it was important that the Norwegians not feel oppressed by rule from the political centre in Copenhagen.

Why we are sat here being oppressed, while people from other tribes are hauling themselves up by their own ungodly efforts and buying three-piece suites.

So the impression here of determined marginalisation may not, to those in the Labour know, reveal anything more worrying about Mr Corbyn's attitude to women than, say, his proposal for women-only carriages and his response to reports from "oppressed" Muslim women, his enthusiasm for legalised prostitution and last week's smirk when his followers jeered at the journalist, Laura Kuenssberg.