Bound up, as it was, with the urgent and divisive issue of slavery, there was no avoiding the issue — despite the best efforts of even the most agile political types, such as Stephen Douglas. (firstthings.com)
We had a dream — that the President would stand as firm as Abraham Lincoln when he faced the great moral issue of slavery — and, like Franklin Roosevelt or Winston Churchill, he would speak with the public, enlisting their support and reassuring them. (truth-out.org)
In fact, it was the issue of slavery — not gender — that first made me question what I'd been taught about how to interpret and apply these passages. (rachelheldevans.com)