Sentences with phrase «civil rights calls»
Of all the things that most Americans would likely think abnormal about Harvard, few are so abnormal as what the Coalition for Civil Rights calls «normalization.»
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Ava DuVernay was finishing up her civil rights drama, Selma, when she got a call from a Netflix executive: Would DuVernay be interested in making a documentary?
Democrats and civil rights groups called it an example of the Reagan administration intimidating black voters.
«Nearly one in five job ads for China's 2018 national civil service called for «men only» or «men preferred,» while major companies like Alibaba have published recruitment ads promising applicants «beautiful girls» as co-workers,» Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said.
In his famed Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. King called out eight of his fellow clergy members who'd asked him to delay civil rights demonstrations in the city.
SAN FRANCISCO — Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is calling on Uber to release its employee demographics and join the fight to «change the face of technology.»
The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.
The president and CEO of a group suing Broward officials for violating the civil rights of Zachary Cruz, brother of the Parkland school shooter, called on Broward Sheriff Scott Israel to resign Thursday.
In our engagement with China in Canada, respecting Canada's sovereignty and traditions is no less essential and calls us to uphold principles of intellectual freedom, civil society, and human rights through enforcement of our legal and regulatory standards.
Collectively, this disparity fuels what has been called the «school - to - prison - pipeline,» a systemic bias that civil rights advocates say pushes children and young adults of color out of the classroom and into the criminal justice system.
Once in the White House, Kennedy faced pressure from civil - rights activists to make good on what King called a «huge promissory note» to pass meaningful civil - rights legislation.
Then there was a thing called «the movement» (often capitalized as The Movement), which was a frequently confused mix of agitations coming out of the civil rights movement, joining up with opposition to the war in Vietnam, and linking hands with a «counterculture» that embraced everything from pharmaceutical ecstasies to flirting with revolutionary violence.
• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»
denying people their civil rights is called bigotry.
With the Latest News now out about the nation's largest Black organization endorsing Gay marriage and calling for an end to the hate and citing the 14th Amendment, Coretta S. King, wife of the very famous Black civil rights leader, would have been immensely happy!
The classic civil - rights movement was determined to reshape America through moral reason; distorted into a twisted parody of itself through the victim culture, it was followed by a moralism self - consciously detached from reason that would prove incapable of calling anyone, black or white, to the great cause of equal justice for all.
«My journey as a racial reconciler began in college with an experience called Sankofa - a three - day bus trip exploring Civil Rights sites throughout the South.
The Council on American - Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, called on the NFL to make its rules about on - field celebrations more clear.
Call upon the educated, artistic, and creative members of our societies, as well as organizations of civil society, to establish a broad movement for the just treatment of religious minorites in Muslim countries and to raise awareness as to their rights, and to work together to ensure the success of these efforts.
It's called civil rights moron, just like we've done in the past for other minority groups.
On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.
Feathers began flying last Friday hours before Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the country's strictest state law governing illegal immigration, when President Obama called it unfair and promised to have the Justice Department examine it for possible civil rights violations.
It led to a broadcast at the National Civil Rights Museum called #ATimeToSpeak.
Name calling and denial of civil rights, oppression, and manipulation of people seems to be the hallmark of a certain strain of religion.
After Dr. King was killed, multiple other instances took the civil rights movement into something of what people would call an underground phase, and it's really just resurfaced on a national scale.
Austin Channing Brown is one of my very favorite bloggers, whose journey as an evangelical racial reconciler began in college with an experience called Sankofa — a three - day bus trip exploring Civil Rights sites throughout the South.
Santorum claims the USA is the shining star on the hill, but while in Europe gays can enter civil unions which are providing the same legal protection and rights as normal weddings the USA is fighting over this and call this an attack on family values.
In recent months, we've seen a civil rights leader address an evangelical conference and clumsily call out the pro-life community for a failure to address racial injustice.
NCAA President Mark Emmert has announced a new commission to study how its handling of fouls called in men's basketball can help state governments determine the proper balance between religious freedom and civil rights: Continue Reading»
How can our Christian witness survive if we're on the wrong side of what many now call «the great civil rights issue of our time»?
The Marxists of the 1930s onward also called themselves Progressives, and they can be praised (let's face it) for being on the forefront on the Civil Rights movement — for liberating African Americans to be equal parts of the united workers of the world.
Our president has reasonably caculated he can't afford to look less «evolved» than what now appears to be a majority of Americans on the so - called «last civil rights issue.»
Please do not call yourself a Christian: it's like the Grand Wizard of the KKK calling himself a «typical civil rights leader»!
The commission's statement also called the trial a sham and said Iran is violating the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which it is a party.
Although we use «linguistic sweeteners and semantic somersaults» and call these schools «diverse,» the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (now at UCLA) has documented that more than 2 million students, including more than a quarter of black students in the Northeast and Midwest, attend schools in which 99 to 100 percent of the students are nonwhite.
Her journey as a racial reconciler began in college with an experience called Sankofa - a three - day bus trip exploring Civil Rights sites throughout the South.
The governement can and perhaps should step out of the marriage business altogether, but it would have to be replaced by something equivalent, call it a civil union if you wish, that would give people the same rights.
If you ask me, when entire churches commit enormous amounts of time and money to restricting the civil rights of gays and lesbians, it is perfectly appropriate to call those churches «anti-homosexual.»
If it did, gay marriage and fear of civil rights wouldn't be calling thousands to the polls with the drum beat behind of religious right.
But he lamented how Burma's people have suffered «and continue to suffer from civil conflict and hostilities», and insisted that everyone who calls Burma home deserves to have their basic human rights and dignity guaranteed.
If the Church is deeply engaged in the civil rights movement, if it is struggling against right - wing misrepresentation of Christianity and of civil life, if it finds itself in a new phase of the Church - State relationship, if it is deeply involved in urbanization and in the passing of previous forms that once marked the so - called Christian epoch, then all these factors must have a profound impact upon theological education and the preparation of men for the ministry.
It helped that Cox chose the newly martyred John F. Kennedy as the model of his new pragmatic, secular mind, for JFK had audaciously attacked old questions of civil rights, poverty, crime (quaintly called at that time «juvenile delinquency»), and welfare with a new vigor, and stirring a whole new generation to new thoughts.
No one stood outside to take down the names of those who attended the night freedom rallies, as the civil rights meetings were called.
How can a Southerner call themselves «Evangelicals», They embarrassed this country so bad, «With the Brutality and murder of the Civil Rights Era!!!!!!! Stay Red, thats where you belong!
Then, in words which call on the central motifs of the civil religious tradition, Reston thanked the Charlottesville citizen committee for suggesting «that a responsible society must have a common center to which the loyalty and trust of the people are bound, and that these fundamentals must be defined and discussed among the people and put right before the bicentennial of the Declaration in 1976.»
Please understand that a great many people who strive for civil rights, even for lesbians and gays, do so because they believe that is called for by the teachings of Jesus.
He advances a «perfectionist» view of civil liberties - so called because it posits that rights exist in order to guarantee the freedom to pursue genuinely worthwhile activities.
Richard's political interests and abilities were called forth, while he was still a pastor in Williamsburg, during the 1960s, in his participation in the civil - rights movement and, even more so, as a leader in the antiwar movement.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League For Religious and Civil Rights, called the decision «mind - boggling» and «indefensible and obscene,» speculating that anti-Catholic bigotry was at play.