Word: oppressor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...force the oppressor to fall...
Patten was the governor of Hong Kong for the five years before Great Britain returned Hong Kong to China in July 1997. "I'm the last imperial Governor of Hong Kong...the last colonial oppressor," Patten quipped...
...East; and Gandhi-as-Christ, dying (and, before that, frequently going on hunger strike) so that others might live. His philosophy of nonviolence seemed to work by embarrassing the British into leaving; freedom could be won, the film appeared to suggest, by being more moral than your oppressor, whose moral code could then oblige him to withdraw...
...domestic tragedy might have remained largely private had not Plath, already an established poet, left behind a powerful and searing sequence of poems, published posthumously as Ariel, that ensured her lasting fame. The nascent feminist movement in the '60s enlisted her as a martyr and vilified Hughes as her oppressor and, intentionally or not, murderer...
...exclude anyone from systems of privilege, and we must explore the intersections of oppressions if we are to realize a true social justice agenda. Admittedly, this form of living loudly is much more difficult than the first: it's a lot easier to band together against an ostensibly white oppressor than acknowledging the inequities within your minority group itself, but we can't ask for anything less. We all deserve the right to live and shout with our mouths wide, and our voices will only be audible when we have broken the silences open...