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Ben Nevis |
the name of the ship that landed in Galveston, Texas in 1854 with a congregation of approximately 500 Slavic immigrants who sought freedom from cultural oppression and religious persecution. [1/2 definitions] |
color line |
any institutionalized separation of races that is based on skin color and that results in social and economic discrimination and oppression; color bar. |
dystopia |
an imagined state or society in which injustice, oppression, and often terror are the norm and in which, typically, a totalitarian form of government has control over all aspects of life. (Cf. utopia.) [1/2 definitions] |
freedom fighter |
a person who participates in armed rebellion against an established government, with the expressed aim of freeing the people from oppression. |
lib |
(informal) liberation, esp. from oppression, inequality, or persecution. |
liberate |
to free or release, esp. from bondage, oppression, or captivity. [1/2 definitions] |
liberation theology |
a kind of Catholic theology, practiced esp. by clergy members in Central and South America, advocating social activism against political, economic, or social oppression. |
liberty |
freedom from bondage, oppression, or captivity. [1/5 definitions] |
tyrant |
a ruler who governs absolutely and with arbitrary or unjust cruelty and oppression. [1/3 definitions] |
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