Sentence examples for social oppression from inspiring English sources

Ginsberg, victim of social oppression for his homosexuality, has a vendetta against 1950s conformist America.

Most Romanian literature of the 18th century presents a picture of social oppression and decadence under Ottoman rule.

She should, by rights, have had an unremarkable life marked by serial pregnancies, financial struggle and social oppression.

For the past four decades, Mr. Harsono has provided a critical voice against political and social oppression in Indonesia, creating powerful installations with clear social commentaries.

In India the oppression you find is social oppression, because of caste or religion or ethnicity, and most acutely in terms of gender.

In essays in La escena contemporánea (1925; "The Contemporary Scene"), Mariátegui attacked Fascism and defined the responsibilities of the intellectual in countries where social oppression reigns.

Edifice said: "Hip-hop was a social oppression-emergent music genre, so if you want to sample a little of its politically molten core, with some intellectual stimulation to boot, try (among others) Public Enemy – Bring the Noise".

He used Bush's refusal to claim the moral high ground without getting challenged on his brutal human rights record and other social oppressions within Iran.

Ironically, it's exactly this kind of social manipulation, oppression and domination that feminism seeks to liberate both women and men from.

As we read and discussed ideas concerning cycles of oppression, social inequalities, reproduction of social structures, and others, I became conscious of the fact that the lecture-based pedagogical approach I was utilizing was, in fact, both a by-product of oppressive social structures as well as a system that was allowing such structures to perpetuate.

They rebel in response to social and political oppression, not to blasphemy.