Sentences with phrase «better than slaves»

Once again, Stephen E. Ambrose shows that free men fight better than slaves, that the sons of democracy proved to be better soldiers than the sons of Nazi Germany.

But kings manage things better than slaves.

c) As minors we are under guardians and are no better than slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe.

Opponents say it can interfere with learning the basics and holding part - time jobs, puts an unfair burden on students, that it's the responsibility of parents to guide their children's moral and ethical development, and that, at worst, mandatory service is no better than slave - labor.

Not exact matches

It's worth noting that another Fox Searchlight film, Birdman, was among the lowest - grossing Best Picture Oscar winners of all - time, but it went on to gross more than $ 100 million worldwide, while 12 Years a Slave (another slavery - themed period drama) grossed $ 187 million in global ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo.

It turns out that many of these guinea pigs are now professionals» «people who need money and have a lot of time to spare: the unemployed, college students, contract workers, ex-cons, or young people living on the margins who have decided that testing drugs is better than punching a clock with the wage slaves.»

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

a believing slave is better than an idolater though he please you» (Surah II, 221).

They took in abandoned children and raised them as their own; they treated women and slaves better than anyone else; they cared for the sick during plagues when no one else would.

It often happens with such a double - minded person, that the older he gets the more impoverished his life becomes: when his youth, in which there was something better than fear, is spent, and when fearfulness and cleverness conspire together in order to make him into a slave, if one wishes to put it so — to the Good.

Again with regard to the slaves Lincoln showed better sense and truer Christian insight than many of the ministers of his day.

I would argue that America was founded by well educated rich land / slave owning white dudes who wanted more of the cut of the pie, than they were «freedom fighters.»

As bad as slavery is, God wants local slaves treated better than foreign ones.

In his zeal to protect indigenous people of the West Indies from Spanish conquistadors, the 16th - century Dominican Bartolomé de Las Casas advocated the importation of African slaves, whom he believed would be treated better than the Indians.

He is little better off than a slave.

i wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a man for his beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to die for his faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's self.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Where does it say that God tells us it is better to have slaves than to not have slaves?

@Lie4Him: this is the part where you chime in that slavery was the norm and god just wanted people to treat them better than other slaves.

«8 He even echoed the argument that some of the Southern apologists used for very different purposes; namely that the slave is in some degree better off than the factory worker since he never faces the uncertainties of unemployment or the pangs of actual physical want that afflict the latter.

Few capture the kidnapping, slaveholding theology of American Christianity better than former slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass:

At any rate, the basic cry represented here is one known in essence to us all: Better to serve Egypt than die in this wilderness; better to be slave and idolater than proceed on the insecure and insubstantial ground of Better to serve Egypt than die in this wilderness; better to be slave and idolater than proceed on the insecure and insubstantial ground of better to be slave and idolater than proceed on the insecure and insubstantial ground of faith!

It would be better to be slaves again than to wander in the wilderness devoid of safety.

There were still slaves who were treated little better than cattle — those with little or no skills — who did a significant portion of manual labor in the days of the Empire.

Given other statements by Wesley on such matters as slavery, it would not be hard to claim that he would agree that the slaves have a better chance of understanding the gospel than their masters.

His good deeds were legendary; he started an orphanage and a hospital, even though he was little more than a slave,»

And let's face it, I have way better things to do with my time than slave away in the kitchen (and I know you do too).

Nothing is better for your family than a home cooked meal, but you do not have to slave yourself in the kitchen.

And what better way to celebrate than to eat the very thing they were unable to eat as slaves?

Selling to shops is all well and good but your pricing has to be so keen to allow for their 2.4 markup that you can end up slaving away into the wee hours for less than minimum wage.

Most slaves, especially those on smaller plantations, were fed better and lived in better conditions than freemen in the North.

It is far better to live with optimized health by resolving diseases at their core rather than being a slave to the symptoms they produce.

I would much rather spend more $ on better quality and have fewer pieces that I love, than to spend less $ on crap garments that drape terrible and are made by slave labor.

I am new to the Community and looking for a good cute slave to be mine and mine alone... must be 30 or younger and willing to have a good time other than being a sex slave... im looking for a life partner not just a slave

A dream - sequence reunion between Erik and his slain father (Sterling K. Brown) might count as the most affecting moment in MCU history — if not all of superhero cinema — were it not for Killmonger's final lines: «Throw me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped off the slave ships,» he says, «because they knew death was better than bondage.»

12 Years a Slave,» about a free black man ripped from his family and sold into more than a decade of bondage, won six awards including Best Film, Best Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong» o), Best Ensemble, Best Adapted Screenplay (John Ridley) and Best Original Score (Hans Zimmer).

Shadow of Mordor can offer nothing better than that: the plot is average, and side missions range from the severely limiting «kill x orcs in this specific way» to the unreasonably tedious «free these identical human slaves (again)».

It's been a great year for film, and for people to consider 12 Years a Slave to be among the best is more humbling than you can imagine.»

The problem with equating African slaves to robots is that I, Robot doesn't do a very good job of forecasting robots that are anything other than happy washing machines, Cuisinarts, and dog - walkers.

Born into slavery in 1813 in Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs's early life was actually better than that of many other slaves.

Despite the low wages, teaching was a far better line of work than slaving away in a textile mill.

Those books say that humans and dinosaurs co-existed, that slaves were treated well, and that gay men and lesbians have no more claims to special rights than child molesters or rapists.

These texts teach students Bible - based facts, including the following: dinosaurs and humans co-existed on Earth; slave - masters generally treated their slaves well; in some areas, the KKK fought the decline in morality by using the sign of the cross; and gay people have no more claims to special rights than child molesters or rapists.

, including the following: dinosaurs and humans co-existed on Earth; slave - masters generally treated their slaves well; in some areas, the KKK fought the decline in morality by using the sign of the cross; and gay people have no more claims to special rights than child molesters or rapists.

Some slave owners might treat their working people better than others did, but the slaves were still in bondage.

And I think this novel shows slavery in a way one doesn't get from history books: it has the immediacy of some of the best slave narratives, with a much broader view of the whole than any one slave's experience.

The rest of specifications are a 3.5 mm audio jack, Micro USB slave 2.0 port, Micro SD reader slot for expanded memory space up to 32 GB and WiFi for wireless internet connection, as well as full access to Google Mobile Service, includes GMail, Google Drive, Google Talk, Google + and download more than 700.000 app, books, music, movies, widget, TV shows and more on the Play Market.

Although bankruptcy is a nuclear option, it may be a better option than being a slave to that debt for the rest of your life.

Rather than slave away for God knows how long, I thought it far better to start with the first dozen stocks, post them, hopefully get some dialogue / feedback going and then post regular file updates in the next few -LRB-?)

Far better to be McChesney Martin, or Volcker, who let recessions do their work, than slaves of the government who did not — Burns, Miller, Greenspan or Bernanke.