Sentences with phrase «system of oppression of»

Together, we will cultivate a radical practice that tends to the parts of us that have been denied AND confronts the systems of oppression of race, class and gender that are in the way of our transformation.

Not exact matches

Jesus condemned the oppression and marginalization of his impoverished people by the Romans and other ruling elites who sought through their unjust system of taxation to extract as much wealth as possible from the majority of people to benefit the rich, powerful, ruling elites.

Leland describes the Chinese reform as a reversal of financial repression and this repression in the context of the Chinese economy is the oppression of consumers and households by state organizations through its economic systems.

«And there is nothing greater your life can be about than contributing whatever you can to the revolutionary transformation of society and the world, to put an end to all systems and relations of oppression and exploitation and all the unnecessary suffering and destruction that goes along with them.»

Therefore, there is no unnecessary contention with Constantine or the Roman Empire (they should be criticized), progressives are not down on the Roman Empire's art and aqueducts, only the Roman Empires intimate involvement with «Empire,» the systems of violence and oppression, and TJ is in fact stating nothing.

I assume, from my limited understanding, Empire is not the nation state, but it is the essence of triumphalism and systems of oppression that create power structures for the said empire over an OTHER / S.

Collusion Thinking and acting in ways that support dominant systems of power, privilege, and oppression.

It is to say that the bulk of our activity responds to other urgings and binds us more tightly into the system that produces and depends upon oppression.

This would mean an economic system that is free of oppression.

The latest data estimates 45.8 million people are in modern slavery today worldwide, and impacting change in such a lucrative and exploitative system of oppression feels a bit like fighting the Transatlantic Slave Trade of the 1800's.

The syndrome of dominance, institutionalized in every structure of hierarchy in our culture, is the root of all the systems of oppression we attempt to combat in our ministry for justice.

In the Conference on Church and Society (Geneva, 1966), considered «the first genuinely «world» conference on social issues» because of equal representation by all the continents, there were strong demands for the churches to take a more active role in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936).

Well, theology in southern Africa has had a political edge, because people have had to maintain their faith within a system of oppression which itself often had a Christian theological justification, as in South Africa.

In the light of Easter as it shines specifically on Christians in America in 1974, it can hardly remain hidden that this system of competition, domination and violence, of sexism and oppression, carefully programming us by the pattern of the marketplace and subliminally driven into us by advertising, inhibits, to say the least, our walking as men and women of love and hope.

Yeah, just democratic capitalism, which has freed more people from slavery, oppression and poverty than any other system of civilized society in the history of mankind.

There has long been a conviction in certain political and theological circles that capitalism itself as a system is to blame for much of the injustice, oppression and poverty in the world.

Australia was shaped culturally by a history of white, colonial violence and oppression and a system of legalized white supremacy known as the «White Australia Policy.»

Slavery and the system of racial oppression engendered it, and poverty, economic insecurity, and lingering racism sustain it.

At the other extreme, many variants of world - system theory and some variants of the other perspectives regard economic development as inherently productive of conflict, oppression, and exploitation.

If liberation theology arose out of a consciousness of the oppression of the people by the capitalist system, then there is surely greater need of a theology of liberation in this age of globalization.

I want to introduce my kids to a God who is both personal and public, a God who hears their prayers about being afraid to go down the slide at school and who also cares about the systems of injustice and oppression in this world.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

Pledging allegiance to the myth of meritocracy, we benefit from a system of oppression, and yet we insist that our privilege is not a privilege but a right.

Symbol systems expose the structures of oppression (33) and therefore serve the political process, but the institutions themselves also need to be changed.

There is no relation between the pure unitarian system, the most perfect and refined ethics of the Holy Book of Islam, and the ignorance, paganism, superstitious idolatry, arrogant materialism, infanticide, prostitution, incest, dowry extortion, oppression of orphans, disregard for the poor, and scorn of the weak which were characteristics of Mecca in those times.

The enemy of the white south africans was not black south africans but rather the system of oppression the majority of whites supported and facilitated which made life intolerable for the blacks.

Apartheid was an unjust system of oppression and violence.

Unless, that is, our essentially middle - class life style is challenged by the poverty and oppression which is the lot of most of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform of the welfare system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end of a capitalist economic order which increasingly divides the world into those who have and those who have not.

He believes that it is important for family therapists to learn about a family's experiences when they are not in the clinic and to become more aware of the socioeconomic oppression which has a profound, negative impact on those families» systems every hour of their lives.

Systems of belief and their supporting arguments are not taken at face value, but instead analysed as rationalisations for oppression and existing power structures, or as manifestations of psychological impulses.

And a sport, and the people who follow that sport, can not dismantle a system of discrimination and oppression that has existed for centuries and continues to exist, even though it's no longer acceptable to stand on the terraces and lob darts at the nearest black head.

Midwives are in a position of oppression, facing restriction of trade, and need to improve their negotiation skills if we are going to see system - wide change.

Attendees will use intersectionality to examine how systems of poverty and oppression impact a child's self - perception and self - agency in and outside of the play therapy room.

A system of unjust abstraction, oppression, and legal fraud, by which the most useful classes of society are drained of their wealth, and consigned over to eternal toil and never - ending slavery.»

In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a leader in the anti-apartheid divestment movement to end US corporate investment in the racist system of oppression and labor exploitation in South Africa.

The thing is, apartheid, while we think about it as focused entirely against those who were considered «black,» was really a system of formalized oppression against all non-whites.

Are you on the side of the savage oppression and brutality this system enforces on Black people?

As I said many times before, gender is a system of OPPRESSION, not an IDENTITY.

Jordan explained his motivation for the Killmonger character in an interview with Rolling Stone: «This young black man from Oakland, growing up in systemic oppression, not having his mom and dad around, going to foster care, being a part of this system... I understood his rage, and how he could get to the point where he had to do what he had to do, by any means necessary.»

TS: The films» singular comparison is that Solomon Northup is a free man who is enslaved for profit through the brutal trade and oppression of the system of slavery, and my character, Nate, a freedman, is sought after to make a profit, a bounty, by the patty - rollers who seek to re-enslave him.

Jealousy and grief might've been huge factors that shaped him as a man, but it was the pain of seeing oppression around the world that really drove him to enact a plan to destabilize the world's class system.

Outwardly, the two men are on different sides of a great racial divide that stems not only from personal animus (though there is plenty of that to go around), but also from an entrenched system of social, psychological and economic oppression.

Start by asking yourself where racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression are most present in the system in which you teach or lead other educators.

When tackling entrenched legacies of oppression and inequity in our education system, it can often feel especially hard to get started.

There students take courses in «culture and resistance» where they learn about «systems of oppression» and are taught to organize political action in their communities.

Aaliyah El - Amin is a practitioner and researcher committed to ensuring that educators have the knowledge and tools they need to disrupt systems of oppression.

There is no denying Brown «s contribution to ending the evil system of legal segregation and racial oppression in the United States.

Collectively, we acknowledge that to reach a just and sustainable world which does not maintain the systems of global oppression, but act to create the change we want to see in the world.

«By All Means» goal is the most important goal: to ensure that every child is able to reach their full potential, stop the systems of oppression, and give opportunity to all,» shared Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.

Ta - Nehisi Coates offered a «master class» for a group of New York City school leaders who were eager to know what they could do to help dismantle those systems of oppression.