Sentences with phrase «social oppression»

Draper's goal, and the collective goal of Kamoinge Workshop, was to elevate the photographic representation of African - Americans, to transcend the stereotype of African - Americans as victims of social oppression by endowing their subjects with agency and grandeur.

Although many Christians continue to view individuals as if what is truly important in their lives is unaffected by social conditions, others have recognized that social oppression works against that which compassionate Wisdom seeks.

For Marx, concentrating on atheism distracts us from the positive task of liberating humanity from social oppression.

Jesus» response to such a situation of economic exploitation and social oppression as part of his good news is important for us.

In practice, this meant that religion has no place in the realm of politics, economics, and other socio - cultural spheres — leaving thereby the realm of law and order, science, the state, racism, sexism and classism and other forms of social oppression beyond the reach of the Gospel.

and your response is «I reject the premise of referees, as there can be no truly adjudicated response without social oppression which is unjust.»

In his essay Fassbinder noted: «After Douglas Sirk's film, love seems to me even more to be the best, most sneaky and effective instrument of social oppression.»

She argued that the idea of revolution has blocked sober, hardheaded study of the nature and causes of social oppression, prevented the realization that some social oppression is probably inevitable, and tended to hide the fact that our subjection to the natural world can be mitigated but never wholly overcome.

She once gave shelter to Trotsky (and is said to have argued him into the ground over the nature of social oppression), was a soldier at the front in the Spanish Civil War, sought dangerous service in World War II and served with the Free French in London.

Lawrence Blum and Victor J. Seidler in A Truer Liberty: Simone Weil and Marxism (Routledge, 1989) provide the first thorough treatment in English of Weil's analysis of social oppression, which emphasises the limitations of both Marxist and capitalist theories.

Poverty, social oppression, war and violence in society, and the polluted, barren, hostile face of nature — both express this violation of the covenant.

Daughters of Hope not only reduces poverty and injustice, but gives dignity, freedom, and hope to women who have been caught up in the cycle of economic and social oppression.

Social oppression and deprivation deplete the ego resources of many women and members of minority groups in our sexist and racist culture.

21) and recall the social oppression against which the prophets of the eighth century spoke to realize that Israel, north and south alike, gave itself officially to the theory that power is irresponsible, since it is the ultimate source of law.

-- The growth drive is diminished in many persons by a variety of factors including emotional malnutrition, toxic relationships, economic deprivation, social oppression, and their own fear of and resistance to growth.

Social oppression and philosophical uncertainty define the noir atmosphere of Spielberg's least overtly religious science - fiction film.

I was reminded of Fassbinder's statement about love after watching Douglas Sirk's films for the first time: that «love seems to me even more to be the best, most sneaky and effective instrument of social oppression.»

It would be nice, however, if they did not try to appropriate the language of real political and social oppression to complain about business snafus.

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary zeros in on the social oppression of a wilful and passionate woman in the 19th century.

Organizations like the Green Belt Movement have addressed deforestation and privatization as an environmental and a social justice issue, connecting the dots between colonization and economic inequalities, between the lack of land rights and social oppression.

She soon preferred performances and installations as vehicles for the expression of her views on the Vietnam War and social oppression, as seen in Construction - Destruction - Construction.

Kusama's relationship with to family was a contributing factor to her anger against any kind of political and social oppression.

While Cruz Aaceta's focus on the conditions of exile and national tragedy are well known, this exhibition provides space for the artist's more recent investigations into the effects of techno - social oppressions that intrude on our privacy.

Most of the intellectual, creative and artistic members of the modern Japanese society felt the need to rebel against the social oppression imposed by the government however, it had to be done under the veil of free artistic expression no one could censor.

Bingham quotes the legal scholar E.J. Cohn: «Just as the modern State tries to protect the poorer classes against the common dangers of life, such as unemployment, disease, old age, social oppression, etc., so it should protect them when legal difficulties arise.»