Sentence examples for which oppressed from inspiring English sources

This show causes a lot of pain to America and cements the fact that this country is built on systemic oppression (which oppressed groups have known for, I don't know, a while?

He hoped to offer up an effective platform from which oppressed Tibetans could effectively share their story.

It was a movement in which oppressed and reviled people, in the midst of a pandemic, forced the world to both care about them and to take their medical crisis seriously.

Hence, also, the Egyptian Brothers' recent unlikely alliance with the army, which oppressed them for so long.

He also described the incident — the sight of a local farm boy whipping a horse — that gave him the idea of creating a fictional world in which oppressed animals rise up against their tormentors.

Despite our differences, we shared a radical idealism – a dream of what the world could and should be – free from not just homophobia but the whole sex-shame culture, which oppressed straights as much as LGBTs.

Dostoevsky's depiction of the totalitarian state in which the oppressed people effectively collude proved chillingly prophetic.

Salvation is not some private transaction between the individual and God, it is a public story in which the oppressed find freedom in the here and now.

Great churches, convents, and private palaces from this period testify to a concentration of power against which an oppressed populace might periodically but ineffectually rebel as in the ill-fated revolt led by Masaniello (Tomaso Aniello) in 1647 48.

Jesuits were in the forefront of the movement known as liberation theology, which encouraged the oppressed to unite along class lines and seek change.

At the very least, the idea of a kinship of the oppressed, which Jesse Jackson promoted under the banner of the Rainbow Coalition, is plainly a chimera.