Sentences with phrase «day abolitionist»

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My first contact with prison abolitionists was at a two - day «Alternatives to Prison» seminar where the leadership was provided by Fay Honey Knopp and Jane Kathryn Vella of the Prison Research Education Action Project (PREAP).

If you'd bother researching before opening your pathetic little mouth, you would have discovered that Mormons were abolitionist, something that caused a great deal of friction between them and the other residents of Missouri in the early days of the church.

A team of men, led by the slimy W.N. Bilbo (James Spader) is tasked by Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) with essentially buying the votes of lame - duck Democrats, while abolitionist firebrand Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones, in a performance just as central and Oscar - worthy as Day - Lewis») coordinates backroom deals within his own party.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Chronicling Abraham Lincoln's final months as he engineers passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, «Lincoln» stars best - actor contender Day - Lewis in a monumental performance as the 16th president, supporting - actress nominee Field as the notoriously headstrong Mary Todd Lincoln and supporting - actor prospect Jones as abolitionist firebrand Thaddeus Stevens.

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.

Some think his abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens, an Oscar - nominated role, stole Lincoln from Daniel Day - Lewis.

Season 3 sees Will Ferrell, an executive producer, playing children's author Roald Dahl during his days as a British spy; Josh Hartnett as Hollywood icon Clark Gable; Oscar winner Octavia Spencer as abolitionist Harriet Tubman; Topher Grace as board game mogul Milton Bradley; Michael Cera as the leader of the New York newsboy strike of 1899; Dennis Quaid and Sam Rockwell as mobsters Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel; Jack Black as Los Angeles water system architect William Mulholland.

Last year we read The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, a former slave turned abolitionist and juxtaposed its reading with a viewing of Ava Duvernay's prolific documentary «13th,» which discusses modern - day slavery in the guise of mass incarceration and its direct correlation to a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Pence's snubbing of black people happened on the same day President Donald Trump talked as if Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, writer and civil rights leader, were still alive (he died in 1895).

Since the days of the abolitionists, Berea College has had the noble mission to promote the cause of Christ, which may account for Powell's rhetorical style.

And three days after the caning, abolitionist John Brown led a raid that killed five pro-slavery residents of Pottawatomie Creek.

Do you burn the candle at both ends developing revolutionary pharmaceuticals at Abbott Laboratories by day and cataloguing the history of the local abolitionist movement at night?

Waukegan had an abolitionist community dating to these early days.

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New Jersey About Blog Justice Pirate — wife, homeschooling mom of 2 sons, photographer, abolitionist to end modern - day slavery / human trafficking, aspiring missionary, minimalist / simplistic living, quilter, peace & justice seeker.