Sentences with phrase «against the oppressors of»

The New Testament Gospels portray Jesus as speaking against the oppressors of his people with prophetic words of judgment that focus extensively on issues of money and power.

And then the «Fat Underground» emerged, a militant feminist - allied arm of the movement that called for violence against the oppressors of the fat people.

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«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.

Seventy years ago, the inhabitants of Warsaw boldly rose against their Nazi oppressors.

Its effort to create community in the face of suspicion, its combination of idealism and despair, its testimony to the corruption of both oppressor and oppressed, and its tragic heroism in trying to actualize human values against impossible odds is a kind of microcosm of much of American history, but it would take a book to do it justice.

Hartshorne's theological ethics is consistent with such expressions of black theology which, drawing upon the philosophy of black power, maintain that, under certain circumstances, the oppressed may be compelled to engage in violent struggle against an oppressor.

The social principles of Christianity declare all vile acts of the oppressors against the oppressed to be either the just punishment of original sin and other sins or trials that the Lord in his infinite wisdom imposes on those redeemed.28

The people of Ferguson are rising up against their oppressors and hallelujah for that.

The races of mankind are great oppressors: burn up malignity that strives against us.

Black theology can not accept a view of God which does not represent him as being for blacks and thus against whites... black [204] people have no time for a neutral God... There is no use for a God who loves whites the same as blacks... What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their disposal.

This class struggle, let it quickly be said, is not the one that Marxists still fantasy about, proletariat pitted against bourgeoisie, the wretched of the earth rising against their oppressors.

But in time the outlook changed completely, and the problem became that of the violence of the poor and oppressed against their oppressors.

He saved them by giving them the certainty of future fulfillment when they are engaged in their struggle against the oppressor.

Israel's prophets were able to foresee the wrath of God descending upon the people when they oppressed the weak because God had demonstrated his love for the oppressed and his anger against the oppressor repeatedly in time past — most notably in the Exodus.

If we strike out at the oppressor we are buying into the lie Satan told Jesus when he offered the power of all the kingdoms of the world.Jesus never ONCE railed against the brutal Roman regime or criticized their political system.

Where as other ethnocentric forms of nationalism are then seen as Equalist movements to balance the roles of power and revolting against the oppressors, see Malcom X for instance.

Since, on the whole, Shia have the characteristic of Standing against oppressors (even oppressing in other countries, as if Shia see it as their duty (in all conscience) to defend oppressed people), and they are considered as big trouble for the supporter countries of ISIS (and ISIS) where they see Shia as a serious obstacle against them (in their ways of oppressing and plundering oppressed people (indirectly)...

Guber Polls: Bayelsans Steadfastness has prevailed - Fayose Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, declared on Monday that the Bayelsa State Governor and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Seriake Dickson and the millions of the good people of the state have shown steadfastness with PDP during the state's governorship election, which was, declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, noting that with the action which exemplified peoples» power against Abuja political oppressors, Bayelsans can rightly be described as «worthy heroes of democracy».

to the burgeoning relationship between Mary and Jim, a touch of Miracle on 34th Street to the George subplot, and the idea of a band of women taking a stand against oppressors has been rehearsed in the West End as recently as last year's short - lived musical staging of Made in Dagenham.

His father N'Jobu facilitated the theft of vibranium in an attempt to arm black people all over the world against their oppressors; N'Jobu is killed by T'Challa's father T'Chaka for his insubordinate attempt to end the centuries of isolation that have kept Wakanda safe.

The antagonist, suffering years of racial subjugation, wants to end Wakanda's isolation by using her weapons against oppressors all over the world.

An epic that engages the intellect as well as the eyes and the emotions, this classic stars Kirk Douglas as the title figure, a slave who ends up leading his fellow captives against their Roman oppressors shortly before the time of Christ.

However, John has ulterior motives in mind in assisting Juan in his endeavors, most notably in helping the Mexican peasants gain the upper hand against their oppressors, using Juan as the ultimate unwitting hero of the Revolution.

Not unlike «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» offered up its own eerie supernatural tale of minorities rising up against a brutal white oppressor — a 2018 movie in»60s Cold War drag, its themes driven home via passages of exquisite if strenuous lyricism and a few sadistic jolts of violence.

Adapted very faithfully from the novel by Thomas Keneally (later author of Schindler's Ark), the film concerns a young «half - caste» in turn - of - the - century Australia who feels torn between the values and aspirations of white society on the one hand, and his Aboriginal roots on the other, and who thus takes to violence against his perceived white oppressors.

This «Circle of Five» use their combined influence in their political and military positions to motivate their small, economically blockaded homeland to rise up and become a powerful resistance against its imperialist oppressors.

However, Revenge still ends up being a very entertaining and extremely bloody tale of female empowerment against male oppressors.

The premise is sort of like Willard, only instead of a boy who can control rats and take revenge against his oppressors, Creepers is about a young girl who can control... insects.

In Michoacán, in response to his neighbors being gunned down and beheaded — an atrocity he photographed with his camera as proof of his enemies» barbarism — Dr. José Mireles sought to fight back against his community's oppressors by creating the Autodefensas, a vigilante group that took up arms against the cartels.

At its core, the Hunger Games series tells more than the story of one heroine who fights against her nation's oppressors.

Chris Evans and an all - star cast do a tremendous job telling the dystopian tale about a group of poor passengers on board a train during the second Ice Age that revolt against their wealthy oppressors.

Word somehow spreads of Leo's presence and his ill - defined mystical «difference» and, along with sympathetic chimp Ari (Helena Bonham - Carter), Leo unites large numbers of humans in a desperate battle against their monkey oppressors, who are led by evil chimp General Thade (Tim Roth) and noble gorilla Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan).

The same could be said for freedom fighters in World War II committing acts of violence against their German oppressors.

Moving from a poor fisherman's family whose sons find the courage to take up arms against their oppressors, to a beautiful bride who becomes a prize of war, to an ambitious warrior whose allegiance is torn - Temple of a Thousand Faces is an unforgettable saga of love, betrayal, and survival at any cost.

Set against the backdrop of the globalization crisis, Edmundo Paz Soldán's latest novel is a modern chapter in the age - old fight between oppressed and oppressor.

One of the best strategy games of recent years, this in - depth, hard - as - nails struggle against alien oppressors is well worth picking up for gamers who value brain power over reflexes.

It seems like every other game puts us in control of a brave and heroic protagonist, bent on facing off against an unmistakably evil oppressor.

You'll take control of multiple playable androids in the game amidst a robotic uprising, in which the subservient machines start fighting back against their human oppressors.

The story of androids becoming self - aware and rebelling against their human oppressors has played out numerous times over the past few decades, but Detroit's story has particular reverberations in the context of advances of AI, not to mention TV shows and films like HBO's Westworld and Blade Runner 2049.

It is the motivation behind the disorienting flip at the beginning of Real Violence, but also its Hanukkah prayer, which sparked postulations such as the following from Alexandra Schwartz's review in The New Yorker: «Hanukkah is a holiday that celebrates the success of an uprising against an oppressor; maybe this was an Inglorious Basterds scenario, an act of vengeance for atrocities committed by the man laid low.