Sentences with phrase «against racial injustice»

Those of us who struggle against racial injustice must come to see that the basic tension is not between races.

On August 26, before a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, the 49ers» quarterback sat down during the national anthem in protest against racial injustices in America.

In his career, Clegg said, he has also fought against racial injustice and worked to make his community a better place to live.

'» Lecrae is an outspoken advocate against racial injustice.

Lecrae's stance against racial injustice had made him a target within sectors of evangelicalism.

Instead, the purpose of the protests in the first place, when Colin Kaepernick sat and then kneeled during the national anthem last year, was to rally against racial injustice and police brutality toward people of color.

A former New York Democrat, the president also played to the culture wars that have long illuminated American politics, alluding to his public spat with professional athletes who led protests against racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem, declaring that paying tribute to the flag is a «civic duty.»

Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s, when I joined protests against racial injustice and marched against the Vietnam war.

It is an in - depth chronicle of the controversial and revolutionary organization — presented at a time when the nation is once again engaged in struggles against racial injustice.

Dr. King worked tirelessly in the fight against racial injustice and inequality in employment, education, housing and voting rights.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick originated the gesture as a protest against racial injustice; as #TakeAKnee has spread that message has been somewhat lost amidst the resulting recrimination.

In the course of her research into adolescent spiritual development, Almeda Wright has heard numerous stories and testimonies from young African Americans experimenting with new ways of relating spirituality to their protests against racial injustice.

Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem as a protest against racial injustice and police violence at the start of the 2016 season.

He also supported Colin Kaepernick's protest against racial injustice and police brutality following the death of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Okla..