Sentences with phrase «abolitionist republicans»
The progressive, abolitionist Republicans, guided by Thaddeus Stevens (a scene - stealing Tommy Lee Jones), see it as the first step toward true equality for an entire race.
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Republican religion did much to lay the historical groundwork for the tradition of religious liberty and limited separation of church and state, as it did to nurture creative minorities like the abolitionists, social gospelers, and civil - rights protesters.
For example many Republicans in history would also consider themselves: classical liberals, radical abolitionists, populists, hawks, or religious progressives.
Lincoln relies on Republican Party founder Francis Preston Blair's (Hal Holbrook) support to wrangle votes from border - state Republicans, and Republican Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) becomes the face of the abolitionist push.
On film, Costabile memorably portrayed Republican abolitionist James Ashley for Steven Spielberg in LINCOLN, written by Tony Kushner.
fumes Republican congressman Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones), a vocal abolitionist and a withering orator on the floor.
You can only marvel watching Tommy Lee Jones take the floor as Republican Thaddeus Stevens, a bewigged, fire - breathing abolitionist whose sharp tongue spares no hypocrite.
In congressional debate pro-slavery Democrat Fernando Wood declaims that to make blacks equal to white men is «an insult to natural law» — to which the powerful, acid - tongued Republican abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, played by a well - cast Tommy Lee Jones, retorts, «Slavery is the only insult to natural law, you fatuous nincompoop.
Apart from Day - Lewis's mighty turn — poised between clomping Illinois farm lawyer and brooding thinker — there's career - high work from Tommy Lee Jones as Republican scowler Thaddeus Stevens, a fierce abolitionist who learns to compromise for the greater good.
The first section of the film is an expositional wonder, as not only are the main characters (including Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn), Republican poobah Preston Blair (Hal Holbrook), radical abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) and various members of the White House - hold, among others) introduced and motivated, but the political issues involved are explained with a detail, clarity and respect for the audience's intelligence that's extremely rare in a Hollywood film.