Sentence examples for oppressive institutions from inspiring English sources

"We fought for liberation, to overthrow antiquated, oppressive institutions like marriage; now we beg to join them," they cried.

The sense here of people being dwarfed and oppressed by systems is familiar from Kafka and Foucault: even the libraries where the narrators loiter are depicted as infinitely oppressive institutions.

Maidens fleeing from the rapacious hands of murderous monks in the novels of Ann Radcliffe or Matthew Lewis represent for many the attempt to escape from the constrictions of Christian belief and its oppressive institutions into secular freedom.

The intersection of racism, sexism, transphobia and other oppressive institutions influence perceptions and experiences of people in the tech industry.

For women and trans people of color, the oppressive institutions of racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia all come into play and cannot be examined separately.

A number of theorists have used the concept of self-respect to examine the oppression of women, people of color, gays and lesbians, and other groups that are marginalized, stigmatized, or exploited by the dominant culture, identifying the plethora of ways in which oppressive institutions, images, and actions can do damage to the self-respect of members of these groups.

"It doesn't feel like you're a part of an oppressive institution".

People of faith ultimately worked ferociously to overthrow an oppressive institution that churches had previously condoned.

Any issue you have that is addressing an oppressive institution, this movie is for you too.

You can be in an oppressive institution and not be an oppressor".

No oppressive institution in history has carried on or endured without some form of complicity of "inside" or native collaborators.