Sentences with phrase «against lynching»

Throughout his presidency, Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching, and he opposed integration of the armed forces.

These historical subjects include the cultural campaigns for women's suffrage and against lynching in America, women as subjects and makers of Soviet propaganda, Tina Modotti's socialist photography in Mexico, and the government - sponsored Living Newspaper productions of the Federal Theatre Project.

Somilarly, all defenders of people who were falsely accused in pedoplilia are pedophile mafia, those who are against lynching of suspected pedophiles are pedophiles themselves etc..

Emmanuel Bamford said any of the residents had the opportunity to be a hero by standing up against the lynching and would have been celebrated but they all missed it.

Niebuhr may not have spoken out against lynching and other forms of racism later on because of another reason, Lemert said.

Niebuhr's decision not to speak out against lynching encouraged other white theologians and ministers to follow suit, Cone said, because Niebuhr was considered the nation's greatest theologian.

Not exact matches

These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».

The mayor is correct to stand up against your ignorant lynch mob mentality.

Just because being lynched is worse than being raped, doesn't mean that if one is vulnerable to both, one should do nothing to try to stop rape [Crimes Against Women: Proceedings of the International Tribunal, edited by Diana E. H. Russell and Nicole Van de Ven (Millbrae, California: Les Femmes, 1976), p. 89].

I will be crucified for what I am about to say but OZIL came to ARSENAL as a nervy last minute buy when WENGER was lynched on that first game against VILLA after not doing nothing at all the whole summer he went in a RUSH and bought OZIL at the very end of the SUMMER TRANSFER.....

It included the $ 7 million precedent - setting judgment against the United Klans of America on behalf of the mother of Michael Donald, a young black man lynched by the Klan in Mobile, Alabama.

The Rochester brick; the threats to lynch the U.S. Attorney General; the voter intimidation; the guns brought to health care informational meetings; the death threats against Comptroller DiNapoli after he was first appointed; etc..)

The Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has launched a stinging attack on the media for acting like a «lynch mob» against Jeremy Hunt and Baroness Warsi.

Provisional charge of murder has been preferred against the seven persons accused of lynching and burning a Ghanaian military officer.They have been remanded into Police custody to allow investigators delve into the case.

Ghana's Police investigators will this morning begin building a solid case against five residents of Denkyira - Obuasi who were arrested for allegedly lynching a military officer and setting a part of his body ablaze.

Jaron Lanier rails against the social trends being fostered by the Internet — in particular its power to stifle creativity and grant anonymity as well as encourage groupthink and a lynch - mob mentality

The South Carolina militias, portrayed in the film as a ragtag band of good - hearted family men, could be exceedingly ruthless, not just against British troops but with neighbors who refused to join them or take sides — the lynching of perceived loyalists and destruction of their homes was not uncommon.

Permit me to close with a telling quote contained in the text by Malcolm X which has ostensibly withstood the test of time: «America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynchings, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self - hate and self - doubt.»

They frequently took as their subject matter sexual violence against black women and lynching.

Released at the height of the African - American struggle against Jim Crow segregation, the book played a pivotal role in raising the country's awareness of racism while simultaneously serving to shame the South about its disgraceful legacy of lynching, oppression and discrimination.

In this third lesson students analyze the film within an historical context of lynching and the early struggles against Jim Crow and racism.

Her crusade against the horror of lynching is described in explicit, brutal accounts, illustrated with horrifying photos that make it easy to understand her rage.

Now before you go lynch me for saying that an huge open world game can not come without glitches I would like to point out that this is not my biggest gripes with the game as I have tolerated a lot of glitches since the first Risen game, the problem is mainly the combat and the camera and those two working against you is enough to make you break controllers and not wanting to continue on.

PERFORMANCE > Artist Dread Scott joins protestors in Union Square demonstrating against police killing black men, bringing a huge black flag, holding it aloft for all to see the words emblazoned on it in white: «A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday.»

«I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama, UNLESS of course, this is how the woman really feels!»

Just as an example, I know of 4 cases only in France where a public statement against IPCC recommendations and conclusions by a scientist had triggered open letters and hate propaganda of IPCC members, enviro advocay groups and AGW believers who virtually asked for public lynching of the heretic.

Of course there have been terrible crimes against members or suspected members of the LGBTQ community, and it might be fair to draw an analogy between some of those specific crimes, but not the American black civil rights struggle, not school segregation and bombing of churches, not the lynchings where in some places in the south any old tree may have been the site of a murder.