Sentence examples for oppressed to from inspiring English sources

Alternatively, societies that are oppressive make it irrational in general for the people who are oppressed to trust those who oppress them (Baier 1986, 259; Potter 2002, 24).

For if they find their state intolerable, but are too heavily oppressed to change it, they are simply pawns in the hands of larger powers, which, in such a context, are always unscrupulous, and when, eventually, they do change their situation — as in Cuba — we are menaced more than ever, by the vacuum that succeeds all violent upheavals.

Not to mention Oscar and the physically ruined Stan, who have both experienced a reversal of fortune but are still working together, partly because of their long-term bond and partly because, one imagines, it takes a long time for the formerly oppressed to understand how to make the world their own — that is, completely different.

Despite the time line in the program, there isn't much historical context baked into the play, and my theatre companion posited that "Eclipsed" might have worked better as a novel, which could give the Girl's evolution from oppressed to uncertain oppressor more sweep.

This objection holds that it is easy for those who are not oppressed to advocate nonviolence and indeed, that the powerful can use the ideology of pacifism as a tool with which to further oppress those who are unwilling to take up arms in defense of human rights.

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Alabama will try its best to oppress him, to blitz him, to charge him.

However, talking backstage, Arquette appeared to urge oppressed groups to fight the corner of older women being underpaid.

The aid these vampire governments received was used to oppress people, to fund wars or police states.

Those who are oppressed seem to be in a paradoxical relation to integrity.

Until the oppressed seek to remove this internalized oppressor, they cannot be free.