Sentences with phrase «considered slaves of»

Not exact matches

But what a lot of people don't consider is that we have watched our own mothers and fathers work their entire lives, slaving away for the American dream, only to obtain the house with the picket fence and still be unhappy.

Were a person to have violated a court order directing the return of a runaway slave when Dred Scott was the law, would a genuinely held belief that a slave was a human person and not an article of property be a matter the Court could not consider in deciding whether that person was guilty of a criminal contempt charge?

Considering that the approval to rape and gives guidelines of who you can buy as a slave, for how much, etc. is (if you believe the bible) given to Moses by god.

Q7) Do you consider any none Christians «Religious or not Religious», as Slaves of God and not as Godly as you are?

The Light and the Power of Words were totally Rejected by the children of Israel because it came to them by the children of Ismael since they had rejected Ismael before that considering him a slave a son of a slave woman «Hager»!!

Wives were considered the property of their husband, though they held a higher status and more privileges than slaves and concubines (Exodus 20:17).

Oh btw NP, I read yesterday that in the Greek, the verse about how Jesus made himself the lowest of the low and a slave etc. «not considering equality with God something to be grasped at» (sorry no good at remembering verse numbers, but you'll know the one) actually says that he stripped himself naked.

Interestingly, an economic study of the slave trade there would consider whether the effort by some Christians to buy slaves in order to set them free has had the effect of increasing the market price for slaves.)

As long as the child remained unadopted, he was considered to be slave, even though he was a child born of the Father.

If you have not seen that the entire Scripture is about loving God and loving others, becoming their servants and slaves, even to those whom you consider the «enemies of Christ» (who is that, by the way?

I think Megyn Kelly is right on this one, especially considering that Jesus tacitly endorses slavery, and that Santa Claus is master to a horde of Elven slaves.

After all we as Arabs consider Jews as our cousins... but as it seems that does not make them happy because we descended from «Ismael the son of the slave wife of Abraham..

Since the dawn of time slave owners have always considered their slaves to be property — chattels to be used and abused.

If a black slave were forced to wash her master's feet, we would consider it the depths of degradation.

But giving your mom a speech about how you are morally superior to her for not eating animals is false logic, considering the slave labor used to produce your fruits, vegetables, nuts, and other delicious animal - free ingredients (coffee, sugar, bananas, mangos, berries, peaches, and cashews are just a few examples of foods imported from the third world where workers are severely mistreated and underpaid, or farmed by underpaid Mexican immigrants in the US).

It was the most ugly display of what he felt we considered him, nothing but a slave.

Among the statues and monuments that came under scrutiny was the statue of Christopher Columbus that stands above Columbus Circle; a plaque in lower Manhattan for Henri Philippe Petain, considered a Nazi collaborator; and a Central Park statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims, who operated on slave women to develop advances in gynecological surgery.

The remains of the wall found at the Timna site, once considered a barrier used to contain slave laborers, apparently played a different role as well.

«Whereas the Pacific was previously considered the main driver of tropical climate variability and the Atlantic and Indian Ocean its slaves, our results document a much more active role for the Atlantic Ocean in determining conditions in the other two ocean basins.

Instead of being a slave to the gym, consider how your body enjoys to move.

Will consider Ownership of worthy Slave.

Meanwhile, Nate Parker, the multi-hyphenate lead of the Nat Turner slave revolt flick, «The Birth of a Nation,» wasn't anywhere to be seen on the show that, 12 months prior, he was considered all but a lock to be a fixture of.

While it's easy to compare this film to 12 Years a Slave, considering the brutally honest representation of slavery in both films, this one is unique in that it's a different story told in a different way by a first - time filmmaker.

The screenwriters introduce a fascinating subplot, likening the clones to slaves, each of whom are considered less than human by their «masters.»

Smith was originally rumored to be considering playing the character of Django, a slave who embarks with Schultz on a mission to free Django's wife, who is working as a slave in the house of sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Considering its notoriously troubled history — the $ 175 million project, directed by first - timer Carl Rinsch, went into production almost three years ago — some blatant re-cutting is expected; the Dejima episode, where Ôishi goes to rescue Kai from Dutch slave traders, feels like a severely shortened version of a longer sequence.

Quite possibly the most devastating performance of the year, Lupita Nyong» o's work in 12 Years a Slave is all the more impressive considering it's the actress» first feature film role ever.

«Fruitvale Station» was a hot property coming out of last year's Sundance Film Festiva; and was considered an Oscar contender, but it ultimately received zero nominations, likely due to the seismic impact «12 Years a Slave» had on the Oscar race.

The star of 12 Years A Slave was, for most of the season, considered a front runner for the top spot but was shoed out in the last moment by Matthew McConaughey and his late rising star.

Consider this year's trio of Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Whiplash and compare to last year's Gravity, 12 Years a Slave and Dallas Buyers Club.

Since we're never shown the implications of Northup's absence from his family, «12 Years A Slave» is too self - contained to be considered an epic, but its majestic score and parade of cameos aren't exactly true to McQueen's independent, arthouse roots.

Consider too the appearance of an interpreter played by Chiwetel Ejiofor in an uncomfortable echo of his recent role as Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave, speaking to the essential problem in American pictures that African - Americans are generally recognized for playing servile (slave / servant), athlete, musician, or criminal — the very roles they're cast into in American society, as it hapSlave, speaking to the essential problem in American pictures that African - Americans are generally recognized for playing servile (slave / servant), athlete, musician, or criminal — the very roles they're cast into in American society, as it hapslave / servant), athlete, musician, or criminal — the very roles they're cast into in American society, as it happens.

While the $ 38 million Steve McQueen's «12 Years a Slave» has now grossed could be seen in comparison to many recent major Oscar contenders as mildly underwhelming, when one considers the hardly marketable content (a dark, sometimes brutal exploration of slavery), its $ 20 million budget, and the fact that there could be a good $ 10 - 20 million where that came from once the Oscar nominations come out, «12 Years» stands firmly in the success story column (and should end up topping the aforementioned «Instructions» as the year's highest grossing specialty film by the end of January).

Considering that Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club), Robert Redford (All Is Lost), and Cannes Best Actor winner Bruce Dern (Nebraska) are near - locks here, and that Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street), Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips), Forest Whitaker (Lee Daniels» The Butler), and Christian Bale (American Hustle) are probably hot on their heels, there's not much room left for Hawke's subtle turn.

It's not even August and the award season slate is already jam - packed with likely looking titles like 12 Years a Slave, Mandela, the Tom Hanks double feature of Captain Phillips and Saving Mr. Banks, The Butler, Gravity, The Fifth Estate, The Wolf of Wall Street, Fruitvale Station, Dallas Buyers Club, and if there is a just and loving cinema god, Blackfish will be considered for Best Picture, not just as a documentary.

In the novel, Ron and Hermione's first kiss comes after Ron makes a stirring statement in support of the liberty of the Hogwarts's house elves, whom he once considered willing slaves.

Considering this inexcusable, Jones founded the Piney Woods Country Life School with the goal of educating the sons and daughters of the impoverished citizens — some the children and grandchildren of former slaves — of the county.

Adams's life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral): her mother, whom she considered terribly overprotective; Benjamin Franklin, who schemed to clip her husband's wings; her sisters, whose dependence upon Abigail's charity strained the family bond; James Lovell, her husband's bawdy congressional colleague, who peppered her with innuendo about John's «rigid patriotism»; her financially naïve husband (Abigail earned money in ways the president considered unsavory, took risks that he wished to avoid — and made him a rich man); Phoebe Abdee, her father's former slave, who lived free in an Adams property but defied Abigail's prohibition against sheltering others even more desperate than herself; and her son John Quincy, who worried her with his tendency to «study out of spight» but who fueled her pride by following his father into public service, rising to the presidency after her death.

This established a role for Granada, since she had never been considered a part of the slave community.

Napoleon considered all those who composed his retinue in Dresden as slaves and grovellers, mortally afraid of him.

It's another in which Hendricks intimates a subtle political message: the idea that the American flag, all crumpled up, looked like chitlins, a stew made from the bowels of pigs (considered the worst cut of meat) that was historically eaten by slaves.

The work in Colored: Consider the Rainbow, engages one of the most painful and systematically damaging pathologies of slave - plantation culture known as the «Skin Game.»

Next month, the Obamas will consider borrowing four works by African - American artist William H. Johnson including his «Booker T. Washington Legend,» a colorful oil on plywood depiction of the former slave educating a group of black students, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

We ought to then consider the impact of the Arab / Muslim slave trade and its devastating impact particularly on peoples of sub-Saharan Africa.

I suspect that when one considers the hours I'm required to work for my take - home, I and those of my lowly ilk may actually be paid a higher hourly rate than some of the slaves working evenings and weekends in commercial, when all's said and done.