Sentences with phrase «form of oppression»

For both practical and ideological reasons, their needs are not secondary ones which can safely be ignored until all other forms of oppression have been eliminated.

Black women experience a double oppression, but many of them observe that racism is the most stubborn form of oppression.

More than 27 million people are still trapped in one of the world's oldest forms of oppression.

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.

I remember that the Action Congress of Nigeria, as an opposition party in 2012, described the paralysing visit of Mrs Patience Jonathan to Lagos State as the worst form of oppression of the common man.

This freedom of association has proven to be a crucial civil liberty over the past several decades, and organizing or attending a protest or march can be a useful way to show solidarity as an effective ally against forms of oppression.

Yet its alienation from other radical movements, especially black liberation, and its recourse to a kind of «separatist» ideology — that talks about the oppression of women as more basic than any other form of oppression in a way that makes women a separate cause unrelated to other kinds of oppression — may be working its own kind of subtle social encapsulation.

The past events that are favored or privileged glimpses into God's vision of the future are usually events of liberation from various forms of oppression, injustice, violence.

Yet the very technology which crosses cultural barriers also allows new forms of oppression to flourish.

Achieving strong and lasting environmental protection depends on challenging forms of oppression that fuel and enable environmental destruction.

A subtle form of oppression has been the subjection of the congregation to the preacher's own private canon of Scripture, which frequently excluded most of the Old Testament and much of the New.

Women have experienced similar forms of oppression under patriarchy, but the paring process occurs in a variety of expressions which reflect unique histories and temperaments among women.

But even in these cases the lack of full integration can be understood, more because of the special forms of oppression they suffer in American society than from any intrinsic closure of intellectual institutions to them.

If the Bible is fundamentally patriarchal, and if we must now recognize that patriarchy is one more form of oppression, perhaps the most fundamental of all, then how can Biblical authority be asserted at all?

Anti-Semitism and other forms of oppression exist in our past and present so long as we refuse to acknowledge and eradicate them from our midst.

In the United States we have been dealing with forms of oppression that are not based on economic class although they have economic consequences.

In which I both challenge the trans community to face up to the implications of their own logic and, in honor of the season of goodwill, selflessly offer the New Left a helping hand by coining a term for a novel and pernicious form of oppression.

The Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt, created in 1990, is an international network based in Brussels working for radical alternatives to the different forms of oppression wherever they take place in the world.

It is also a struggle against internalized forms of oppression as manifested in negative self - images, depression, a sense of hopelessness, and apathy.

When schools and / or districts choose to ignore massive forms of oppression because it is not convenient or comfortable to discuss, another...

In the early 70s a new social awareness within both feminist and African - American liberation circles of the unique forms of oppression suffered by Black women necessitated that women of color define Black feminism once and for all.

We are therefore committed to understanding how racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, religious discrimination and all other forms of oppression affect and implicate each of us.

It is our belief that responsible action must take place which addresses and strives to eliminate forms of oppression which diminish wholeness and effectiveness.»

It is only through a full appreciation of lived experience that we can confront and overcome the intersecting forms of oppression that pervade our communities.

The guide provides instructional materials that help high school educators to explore the intersection of various forms of oppression and the complexity of bias incidents at the center of the Leo Frank case in four topic areas:

The ancient rights, privileges, immunities and liberties of institutions» the Church, universities, guilds, localities» were redescribed as forms of oppression.

Since there are many forms of oppression, this could result in a variety of theologies.

Looking back to early October I can think of so many individuals in my personal life that would deny the presence of racism, misogyny, and various forms of oppression in contemporary North - American society.

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

About the veil, specifically though, we must also see it as potentially a form of oppression for the individual, as Ayaan Hirsi Ali has courageously and under threats pointed out poignantly through life and art and biographical writings.

Can the communities of the poor which are irrupting throughout the Third World be the basis for a new «people's theology» which seek to liberate humanity from all forms of oppression: poverty, servitude, racism, sexism, and the like?

Economic exploitation is a form of oppression.

Any regime, including a democratic one, degenerates into what the Pope calls a «tyrant state» when its law exposes the weakest and most vulnerable members of the community» those most in need of the law's protection» to private lethal violence or other forms of oppression.

It seeks to re-present and incarnate God's creative transformation of the world, liberation from all forms of oppression, embodying and cultivating compassion, sensitivity, receptivity, responsiveness, and solidarity with all creatures, in order to enable creative responses to the lures with which God beckons.

The community for whom the text is written is usually in the midst of some form of oppression.

Since Marx, or at least dominant expressions of Marxism, gave little attention to these other forms of oppression, or regarded them as by - products of class warfare, Americans who opposed all forms of oppression looked elsewhere for guidance.

The increased power, even intrusiveness, of the state, was justified not as a form of oppression, but rather in the name of liberation of the individual.

No one group has a monopoly on suffering, and there is no single paradigm or «worst» form of oppression.

The determination of Negro Americans to win freedom from every form of oppression springs from the same profound longing for freedom that motivates oppressed peoples all over the world.

When secularists argue that crucifixes are instruments of symbolic opression they do not realize that maybe their conception of state is a form of oppression for people with different beliefs.

But in the church, defining God in Christ on our own secular or subjective terms is also a form of oppression.

The Bucher book claims: «Straight white males can not define for others what liberation should mean — the power of definition is a form of oppression» (p. 124).

The central thrust of Jesus» life and teaching, in my reading of the New Testament, was directed against all forms of oppression, and it is imperative that we step up our efforts to unpack and apply the ramifications of the «gospel of liberation.»