Sentences with phrase «tool of oppression»

He added, «Legislators are not safe, judges are living and working in fear; the media are being harassed, security agencies have all become tools of oppression for the government.

I voted for those candidates who promised to mind their own beeswax and keep their religiously constructed tools of oppression to themselves instead of trying to legislate it.

Pierce is trying to fight back against the powers that be by using their own tools of oppression against them.

While Ligon in the course of his career has drawn from a variety of writers, critics and theorists, including Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Dyer, he has been particularly drawn to the African American writer and social critic Baldwin for his exploration of black, gay and bisexual identity, as well as his emphasis on the power of language as a structural tool of oppression.

Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Kim, and many other leaders used Atheism as a tool of oppression and slaughtered millions of religious people, whether they be Muslim, Jew, Christian, Pagan, Hindu, Buddhist, or whatever.

«Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Kim, and many other leaders used Atheism as a tool of oppression» — Ryan, try actually reading what I wrote.

Kurien, in the above study, points out that today powerful and all - pervasive market has become «a tool of oppression».

It had become a tool of oppression in the hands of the religious elite for the subjugation of the masses.

All you have said unfolds from the belief in an angry and violent God, a belief that weaponizes religion, making it a tool of oppression, a belief that has been manipulated throughout history to justify atrocities beyond count.

Religion is a tool of oppression and division — not unification or enlightenment.

No one item is THE one tool of oppression that is going to alter the path of our girls forever.

For a number, Magna Carta should not be celebrated in this way, for it was nothing more than a tool of oppression, which merely entrenched an elitist system that cared little for the people.

According to him, «the Police have allowed themselves to be used as a tool of oppression and suppression in the hands of the ruling party in the state.»

Proletariat will use this tool of oppression, state mechanism, i.e., proletariat themselves organised as the state, for the elimination of property, classes and state.

But despite that, the controversy ended up opening a lot of people's minds to the idea of «modest dressing,» not as a tool of oppression, but as something empowering and even, yes, stylish.

Throughout Australian history, the Bible has been used by those both asserting colonial power and subverting it, as a tool of oppression and as an instrument of justice.

At their worst, group events can actually be tools of oppression and alienation and serve to support vertical practices that isolate people from each other everyday.

Her work, described by i - D Magazine as «cutesy kitsch meets dark gothic underworld,» deals with reclaiming the tools of oppression, the plight of girlhood, violence, alienation, women's work, witchcraft, and the emotion that teeters on the edge of repulsion and intrigue.

Maypole: Take No Prisoners was a critical look at the Iraq War as well as the overall way war is used as a tool of oppression.

This book is still contested by feminists as both an icon of sex positive writing and a tool of oppression.