1Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or exercise of authority.
‘a region shattered by oppression and killing’
‘The trick is always to look at what we are doing today as if we were someplace in the future looking back and figure out what the oppressions and the injustices are that we are committing today and to get them out of our lives.’
‘It is a struggle to also overcome oppressions based on racism and economic exploitation, as well as a struggle to overcome the legacy of colonialism.’
‘For example, in one essay he shows how African Americans in the South sought to disable or challenge the oppressions even before the Civil Rights era with tactics like fare beating and silent protest.’
‘But for every woman trying to move patriarchal, racist and militarist mountains, there were thousands who just went on living life as it was for women then, with all its oppressions.’
‘If nothing is done to address the root problems behind the oppressions I can see it happening again, I can't see any hope really.’
‘We've had wars, liberations, and oppressions.’
‘In recent years I've come to feel that all the directed oppressions we practice on one another are based not on principles of any kind, but on vulnerability.’
‘The particular history of oppressions does differ, but their structure and consequences for the different groups is the same.’
‘It is such myths (of past wrongs to be avenged or conformities to be observed) that trigger the chain of oppressions.’
‘The whole panoply of oppressions that scare our people and nation would be on the wane.’
‘We often became trapped in internal competition for ‘who is the most oppressed,’ resulting in a hierarchy of oppressions, each group guilt tripping the other.’
‘Feminist work has helped to highlight how oppressions constitute globalization and how revealing these oppressions can lead to new openings and understandings about agency.’
‘It is in this way that political change occurs, new freedoms or new oppressions emerge, and conceptions of what is politically acceptable, the ‘theory’ of politics, change over time.’
‘Their overemphasis on fragmentation, however, offers neither political nor intellectual support in confronting the oppressions with which feminism has historically been concerned.’
‘And people have critiqued Western reason precisely because ‘reason’ and ‘science’ have been such powerful tools to justify various oppressions.’
‘Education, research, critical and theoretical thinking, and in-depth understanding of institutional oppressions remain necessary.’
‘The view of a human being as a possession, rather than a full person with the right to self-determination, is the foundation of many oppressions, and also the foundation of abuse.’
‘As Audre Lourde argued, if we are to work for true social change and justice, there cannot be ‘a hierarchy of oppressions.’’
‘‘There are some oppressions you can't remain silent about,’ Almussa says.’
‘This analysis not only reveals how multiple oppressions constitute the contemporary system, but also suggests new openings for change.’