Sentences with phrase «hand against their oppressors»

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.

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And on the social level, is it not the fact that refusal to act violently against oppressors and to defend the oppressed is to give injustice a free hand, therefore to side with the oppressor?

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.