Sentences with phrase «against the oppression of»

«It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

In the past, an international body like the WJC was clearly necessary to coordinate Jewish efforts in, say, the campaign against the oppression of Jews in the Soviet Union.

I grew up to be a strong woman, a survivor not a victim, and I have stood up against the oppression of women by the church.

He fought against the oppression of the king and the ruling class in favor of the minority and helpless Christians.

Endeavour Forum is one of the few women's organisations which speaks out against the oppression of women under Islam — not just radical Islam as in ISIS and Boko Haram, but mainstream Islam which allows polygamy, child marriage, discrimination against women in divorce proceedings and inheritance laws.

Michael Ignatieff expresses this sentiment well: «Human rights is the language through which individuals have created a defense of their autonomy against the oppression of religion, state, family, and group» (emphasis mine).

Standing against the oppression of others is part of my passion for people, so I have raised my voice to express concern and even outrage when I have seen supposed breastfeeding advocates resort to shaming in general and specifically with this same offender.

«A lot of progress has been made in the steps taken to protect the rights of women and the girl child and in the war against the oppression of the female gender.

People are finally raising up against the oppression of mayoral control of schools and the big corporate money that backs it.

It's been far too long since I've stepped into Faith's Puma Xuvia - looking shoes and fought against the oppression of a totalitarian regime in brilliant parkour glory.

Bernstein's titular «dicks» have served as a form of protest — against sexism, against war, against oppression of every stripe — for the feminist art pioneer since her days in Yale's MFA program during the 1960s.

Not exact matches

In his first - century context, Jesus engaged in active, non-violent, political resistance against that oppression, and he died on a Roman cross because of it.

A sports trainer and cyclist turned humanitarian, Galpin wanted to get to the bottom of what permits widespread oppression against women — especially those in Afghanistan.

At the same time, the NCC calls for the unification of North and South Korea, without reference to the oppression, including religious oppression, in the North, and condemns sanctions against Cuba, which it blames for the economic disappointments of Fidel's revolution.

In fact, the oppression of some Christian governments against rival sects of Christians is the entire reason our founding fathers built our government to be secular, with no authority on religious matters, with no voice over the religion of its citizens, and guaranteed to all the freedom to worship, or not, as their conscious dictates.

Freedom and justice will only become possible when the poor join forces with revolutionary courage against the forces of oppression within their countries and without.

«This is a liberating work of the Spirit, who liberates the oppressed from their oppression, and liberates the oppressors from their oppressing, leading all to a new relationship of equality and freedom, in which each person is fully able to be who they were created to be without having to define themselves over and against others.

The story of early African - American Christianity proves the power of the Resurrection against oppression.

Against the oppression and arrogance of the powerful, the outlines of a new world are being drawn.

Milton's Areopagitica, published as a letter to Parliament in 1644, in the midst of the English Civil War, was an impassioned case against censorship and the oppression of thought.

In fact, they are the ones ascribing to an ideology — merely the most recent of many in human history — that attempts to rationalize discrimination and oppression against some of us based on subjective criteria, this time with victims the least able to defend themselves.

Nevertheless, process theology can never adopt this praxis model for theology without qualification.35 Political theologians are right to warn Christians against the temptation to be drawn into abstract thought for its own sake in a world characterized by starvation and oppression, and thought that lacks relevance to the salvation of the whole world is a luxury the world can not afford.

When the author is not sniggering over his campy double entendres, he indulges in juvenile rage against religion's alleged oppression of homosexuals.

i could, if space allowed post all 109 sura that call for direct violence and other forms of oppression against non believers.

So we buy fancy cars and travel first class and build mansions for ourselves and furnish them with luxuries to satisfy our whims while our neighbors on this planet live in shacks and struggle against oppression and watch their children die young from lack of food and medical care.

The issue is to see how shalom is tied into the fight against drug addiction, carnage on our highways due to alcoholism, ecology, commercial sex, oppression of women, racism and the whole range of evils that fills our news on the airwaves and in print.

«I think God is in favor of liberty and justice and He is against oppression, he told the troops, comparing the contra struggle to the American Revolution.

But the forces of change are gathering steadily, and they seek the help of friends in the U.S. in their struggle against governmental and corporate policies that prop up the present structures of oppression.

The philosophy of black power insists that, given the reality of oppression, there will be struggle against oppression.

He reminds us that the deepest presumption in Christian thought is not against violence, but in favor of protection of the weak and the innocent from unjust attack and oppression.

The current furor, she told me in a recent e-mail, «distracts from real issues of class injustice, racial oppression, and continued discrimination and violence against women, Muslim and non-Muslim.»

A political decision, namely, against a state which as a totalitarian state can not recognize any task, proclamation and order other than its own, nor acknowledge any other God than itself, and which therefore in proportion to its development had of necessity to undertake the oppression of the Christian church and the suppression of all human right and freedom.

The church's prophetic word must be heard in the public sector, searing in judgment against those actions, both individual and systemic, which continue patterns of oppression based on strength or race or sex or tradition.

But if, on the other hand, the metaphysical assertion that God is the subject of all change is conjoined with an assertion of the reality of oppression, then we can deduce that God favors the struggle against oppression, and that there are theological reasons for holding that some things are lawful and some not lawful.

The necessity of struggle against oppression can also be described through the use of neoclassical resources.8 According to such resources, it is inevitable that the oppressed will struggle for liberation.

Thurman reasoned that it is divinely given to the nature of all creatures, even to little green snakes, to struggle and protest against oppression.

It must be remembered however that African - American denominations are not «protestant» in the sense of having been born in protest to alleged Catholic abuses; instead, African - American denominations are protestant in the very different sense of having been born in protest against oppression by Euro - American protestant denominations.

Resistance of life and people against oppression has been the mark and sign of times.

He could have added also that some radical Christians, such as those who supported the World Council of Churches» Anti-Racism program have been vocal in campaigning against structural oppression and racism.

Human rights were to be realized by a struggle against the values and structures of oppression that dominate most of the world.

They've grown wary of many of the stupider rules of the church and the oppression against women that has always existed, in most religions but overwhelmingly so in the Catholic church.

This refuge once known will produce reaction on the happiness even of those who remain there, by warning their task - masters that when the evils of Egyptian oppression became heavier than those of the abandonment of country, another Canaan is open where their subjects will be received as brothers and secured against like oppression by a participation in the right of self - government.

Human rights are realized by struggle against the values and structures of oppression that dominate most of the world.

Not remembered as the greatest 200m final in Olympic memory (that accolade probably goes to Michael Johnson and his world record time of 19.32 at the Atlanta Games or Usain Bolt at 2016 Rio Olympics), this moment would be remembered for the events after the race: three athletes» protest against the violence, subjugation and oppression of racial injustice.

In a recent discussion on «impunity» against the former corrupt political regime in Argentina, individual after individual present spoke out in shame against their silence in the face of oppression — each one felt that they had succumbed to the fear of repression, maybe of the possibility of «disappearance» — but now they recognized that their silence had sanctioned so much of the violence.

People would realize that it's up to them to stand against aggression and oppression and not wait for God to save them, nor would they accept their oppression as the will of God.

He sides against those so enervated by tranquil and sedentary occupations they whine incessantly with the most minimal techno - breakdown and find themselves so locked up in themselves and their screens that they think of marriage and parenthood as forms of oppression.

And a republican form of government makes it less likely that factional interests — that is, those groups that defend substantively wrongful and improper public policies — will be able to exercise their plans of oppression against the legitimate rights or interests of the community in general and the individual in particular.

This has lead to prejudice, oppression, exclusion, and an alarming rate of violence committed against and suicide from within this group.

Salvation works in the struggle for economic justice against the exploitation of people by people; in the struggle for human dignity against the political oppression of human beings; in the struggle for solidarity against the alienation of person from person; and in the struggle of hope against despair in personal life.