Sentences with phrase «violence against the oppressors»

And then the «Fat Underground» emerged, a militant feminist - allied arm of the movement that called for violence against the oppressors of the fat people.

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But in time the outlook changed completely, and the problem became that of the violence of the poor and oppressed against their oppressors.

Thus there is no need to distinguish between good and bad, oppressor or aggressor; violence must not be used against them, because violence is necessarily contrary to love.

Not unlike «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» offered up its own eerie supernatural tale of minorities rising up against a brutal white oppressor — a 2018 movie in»60s Cold War drag, its themes driven home via passages of exquisite if strenuous lyricism and a few sadistic jolts of violence.

Adapted very faithfully from the novel by Thomas Keneally (later author of Schindler's Ark), the film concerns a young «half - caste» in turn - of - the - century Australia who feels torn between the values and aspirations of white society on the one hand, and his Aboriginal roots on the other, and who thus takes to violence against his perceived white oppressors.

The same could be said for freedom fighters in World War II committing acts of violence against their German oppressors.

It is the motivation behind the disorienting flip at the beginning of Real Violence, but also its Hanukkah prayer, which sparked postulations such as the following from Alexandra Schwartz's review in The New Yorker: «Hanukkah is a holiday that celebrates the success of an uprising against an oppressor; maybe this was an Inglorious Basterds scenario, an act of vengeance for atrocities committed by the man laid low.