In a Mass sprinkled with indigenous languages and customs, Pope Francis on Monday gave recognition to the "misunderstood" and "excluded" native peoples long repressed by Mexican power.
In reprising representations of women avatars who resist the unconscious forces that historically repressed women's homosocial power in mainstream culture--an assured signal that a notoriously censorial social order is being displaced--Marina Abramovic has embraced the miracles of saints and the founders of tribal faiths that the otherwise modern secular world shuns.
Yet they limit it reluctantly, because they know that it is when discussion and criticism are repressed that societies fester, powers are abused and dictators build their fortresses.
The symbols of that choice are the giant horns he keeps filed down to squat cylinders on his forehead in order to repress an unholy power intended to bring about the apocalypse.
According to Steinem, "The real reasons for genital mutilation can only be understood in the context of the patriarchy: men must control women's bodies as the means of production, and thus repress the independent power of women's sexuality".
The death of General Franco in November 1975 triggered a design revolution in those regions within Spain repressed since the Caudillo seized power in 1939.
Shiite Arabs have long been second-class citizens, repressed and kept from political power even where, as in Iraq, they are a numerical majority.
He failed to point out that unhappy families actually tend to be unhappy in similar ways -- betrayals, secrets, illnesses, mendacity, deaths, internecine manipulations, power struggles, jealousies, repressed or blatantly open resentments and the occasional shared joy.
She literally explodes with her repressed teen powers".
Of course, Mr. Khatami is also famous for the way his reform agenda has been undermined by the harder-line clerics who hold ultimate power -- including the power to repress dissent -- in Iran.
