Ms. Komsan placed blame for the problem on the lack of laws protecting women against sexual violence, women's fear of reporting trouble, and a powerful undercurrent of oppression and frustration in Egyptian society, particularly among the millions of poor, uneducated and unemployed young men.
For young Elliott Wilson, unaware of so much, the group's powerful lyrics of oppression and rage, especially the album "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back," were an awakening to what it meant to be black in America.
Bob Duggan, writing in the Big Think web forum, said the woman fending off the soldier, "stands for every person of every age struggling against powerful forces of oppression.
After Davis' powerful speech about oppression and sexual harassment at the Women's March in Los Angeles over the weekend, we can imagine she has plenty of things to bring up with FLOTUS.
"Alas," he said, "religious faith has too often been the language of the powerful, the excuse for oppression, the alibi for atrocity".
He remained a cultural icon, a powerful witness to Communist oppression, but many Poles were now more worried about the future than the past.
Indeed, the Little Mermaid thought nothing of sacrificing her voice in pursuit of her love interest - if that's not a powerful metaphor for female oppression I don't know what it is.
And his best-known pictures — one of a crowd of black strikers in 1968 all bearing boldfaced signs proclaiming "I Am a Man" — were powerful indictments of that oppression.
Highly praised among these was the South African politician Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit (Atlantic), a powerful novel of colonial oppression and revenge based on the author's grandfather's life.
Collective protest is one of our most powerful tools against systemic oppression.
