Sentences with phrase «powerless against the past»
Because it is powerless against the past, can not will backwards and break time's desire to move everything into the past, it becomes angry (TSZ 162).
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Constant proclamations that Indigenous peoples are remnants of a past doomed to extinction, that «the old Aboriginal world is now facing its final twilight» 28, and that Aboriginal people are «powerless to defend themselves against the final onslaught» 29 continue to construct us as innately obsolete peoples.