Sentences with phrase «oppressed racial minorities»

Since 1976 EATWOT has been sponsoring dialogues among theologians in Asia, Africa and Latin America and oppressed racial minorities in the U.S. Major conferences have been held in Tanzania (August 1976), Ghana (December 1977), Sri Lanka (January 1979) and Brazil (February 1980).

And, as you also point out, using extraterrestrials as a metaphor for an oppressed racial minority was already done - and fairly well, too - in ALIEN NATION.

Not exact matches

We all know of instances in which racial minorities, women, and colonized countries — as soon as they have gotten into a position of independence and power — have become more oppressive than those who had oppressed them.

The oppressed groups in our society — women, racial minorities, the poor — know well that current language is enslaving and insensitive to them as persons.

The poor and oppressed are stereotyped as lazy or violent; outcast people are dirty and ignorant; the ethnic, national, racial, religious and cultural minorities are subject to old and new stereotypes in their own situations as political or social separatists.

As long as discrimination exists, and racial or ethnic minorities are oppressed, the entire working class is oppressed and weakened.