Sentence examples for vicious oppression from inspiring English sources

The uprising of the Hutus, who constituted the great majority, was a response to what they regarded, not unreasonably, as vicious oppression and had the sympathy of liberal opinion throughout the world, prior to 1994.

They must learn that we moved from slavery into another hundred years of vicious oppression.

Although the initial gains under Mandela have now been replaced with growing unemployment and wide income disparities between the Blacks and Whites, South Africa has certainly progressed from the vicious oppression of apartheid.

When so many gay people are the victims of truly vicious homophobic oppression, why should I be bothered to highlight that suffered by straight people?

"Forget about the terrible things that the Chinese regime is doing at home, the vicious political oppression and violent physical abuse of women – just look at what they're doing internationally," he told the programme.

Thus, the vicious cycle of oppression goes on and on.

And so this vicious cycle of oppression continues.

"Michael Boggs... voted to keep the Confederate battle flag, the most vicious symbol of racism and oppression and white supremacy that is known to man today," Scott said on the syndicated radio program "Tom Joyner Morning Show".

It's a truism that the most openly vicious practitioners of any brand of oppression tend not to be the people at the very top level of privilege, but those in the second-to-last row, desperate for someone at the very bottom that they can feel better than.

My situation was perhaps similar to that which Freeman Dyson describes in his autobiographical essay "To Teach or Not to Teach": I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess... and squeezed between the twin oppressions of whip and sandpaper [a vicious headmaster and bullying boys]..

My situation was perhaps similar to that which Freeman Dyson describes in his autobiographical essay "To Teach or Not to Teach": I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess... and squeezed between the twin oppressions of whip and sandpaper [a vicious headmaster and bullying boys]...