Sentences with phrase «day slavery still»
What Passover is for me is many things but one important thing about it for me is a reminder to be mindful that modern day slavery still exists and I (and we) should try to find ways to stop it!
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
If you find yourself incredulous that slavery could still exist in modern day America, you need to read this story.
still have some form of modern day slavery whether indentured servitude, sex slavery, labor camps or other forms of enslavement.
@majority always: ummmm incorrect on so many levels, if the majority always won we would still have slavery, segregation, no women would have rights... kindof how the republicans and religious want the world to return to when they say «the good ol' days» those days weren't good for everyone, that's why they're the «old days»
An example of why after 600 years of Apartheid and Black Slavery they still suffer from Day # 1 of the same.
Synopsis: With the nation embroiled in still another year with the high death count of Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) brings the full measure of his passion, humanity and political skill to what would become his defining legacy: to end the war and permanently abolish slavery through the 13th Amendment.
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