Sentences with phrase «died for freedom»

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

Just be grateful that brave folks fight / fought and died for our freedom.

How did you spend your days during the fight that I and so many died for freedom that you might live in an abundant society making your own dreams a reality to become true?

If there was a revolution and someone is dying for freedom, that seems admirable because he doesn't just want freedom for himself, or even his country, it's for everyone.

Therefore, why should a few Muslims who weren't here originally, who didn't fight and die for freedom change that.

Forget martyrdom; I will fight and die for freedom.

People have fought and died for our freedoms.

People have fought and died for these freedoms.

Not exact matches

And, dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!?!»

The church that struggled to survive the Communists now has the freedom many of its people suffered and died for.

Now, Job after his bought with «pride» he ask YHWH for his forgiveness, and was later blessed with more sons and daughters who did the law, who were good children and an even better wife, and he lived for four generations of his children and their children, and died a very happy and fulfilled life, knowing that all of his family was left with love, and peace and togetherness among each other, now this is true life, living righteously and wholesome by ourselves and by others around us is what we are all suppose to live like, caring for your neighbors faithfully, and all be as one now not after it is too late but now we need the law of righteousness from YHWH, the 10 commandments, the sabbath, a day of rest, and the passover to remember the ones who died innocently, and to remember the freedom of our lives given by YHWH and do good by one another and not let each other fall, right now is what we need in this world today people.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ¯ that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I also believe in the freedom of speech for all, including the non believers and would fight and die for that right as well.

You are losing religious freedom that your forefathers died for.

Millions of people have died for the «Freedom of speech».

The death - of - God school tells us that the picture of God we have just outlined, save for its inclusion of love and moral justice when modified by love, has died on those who have discovered the reality of human freedom, the human capacity to act significantly, and the responsibility we have for acting in freedom.

You are taking away someone's freedom to choose when you do that and people have fought and died for the right to make their own choices.

So, I pray that as I grow in my faith and as my children experience their own challenges... be it that one chooses to be a pastor or my daughter chooses a life of servitude as a nun that they will also always know that the Lord gives them the freedom to make changes and seek him in whatever way they need to without compromising the fact that he died for us to save us.

The church and the pope are responsible for two murders of women who died because they needed an abortion in catholic countries (Ireland and The Dominican Republic) Just as you people cry out against «abortion» and then murder doctors and women and bomb clinics, I hope somebody will start crying out against your beloved «religious freedom» and then...????

Freedom to eat meat sacrificed to idols was limited only by the demands of love: «Take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak, lest your eating offend any brothers for whom Christ died.»

For Jesus died on the cross for our sins to forgive us and to give us freedom from the old times (the old testamenFor Jesus died on the cross for our sins to forgive us and to give us freedom from the old times (the old testamenfor our sins to forgive us and to give us freedom from the old times (the old testament).

The story of Easter declares that the God of Beyond has died on the cross and through the Holy Spirit now is the human community as the struggle for human equalities and freedoms, the impulse for harmony.

Steelwheels, Perhaps you can look forward to an eternity of being a vestigial appendix on the body of Christ but please understand that there are many of us who would like to experience the freedom of individuality in the here and now and exercise the rights that so many have fought and died for.

More specifically, they called for a «Fortnight for Freedom» concluding with the Fourth of July when U.S. dioceses can celebrate both religious liberty and martyrs who have died for the Catholic cause.

How about «Your father led a good life, he died fighting for his country, his friends, and the freedom of others.

How quick we are to talk about Jesus dying for our sins on Sunday but we are equally quick to demand the «right» to defend our freedom, our stuff or our safety from our enemies by violence the rest of the week.

It's a time to study and practice education and outreach about our history and the current con Those honored have died and / or have been imprisoned fighting for freedom, their rights, and

Precisely in the dying of the old self and its values, they found a freedom for ethical activities, and a resigned acceptance of whatever the future might hold for them — a freedom and acceptance not possible for a person clinging tightly (and perhaps desperately) to his or her past.

I have contended for some time now, that the Gospel just remains too good to be true and so with a little help from the enemy of our Souls, we pervert it and Rob it of its true Joy and the Freedom for which Christ suffered and died to set us Free!

America is about freedom, and if we can't put up two pieces of metal that symbolize what we believe in, then what are all of our American soldiers dying for?

I think it ridiculous to die or kill for any religion, but this guy is standing by the principal of freedom.

Some of the comments are shocking, we are taking religious freedom for granted here while others are willing to die for what they believe in.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

Just as the Kingdom of God does not refer to going to heaven when we die, and just as the Kingdom of God refers to God's rule and reign in our lives right now, so also, salvation does not refer to going to heaven when we die, but refers to the redemption and release from our captivity to sin so that we can live lives of freedom, grace, glory, and joy within God's family here in this life and for all eternity.

One of the kids said, «We are dying and killing for abstract nouns like freedom and democracy, and yet it doesn't feel like Jesus, and I don't see the world getting any better.»

No matter how far we travel, no matter how old we get, no matter if we die, God will search for us and offer us freedom from all that would destroy and kill us.

Now to attain being and life, one has to evolve, for to cease to evolve is the same as to die, which is a loss of freedom, ultimately, for freedom is founded on the possession of being.

The interpretation of the present nature of human beings in any situation, as «made in the image of God» and as «brothers for whom Christ died» should be as Persons - in - Relation and destined to become Persons - in - Loving - Community with each other in the context of the community of life on earth through the responsible exercise of the finite human freedom reconciled to God.

is this not what these soldiers have been fighting and dying for «freedom» that's why we live in this country to have the freedom to live and have our own beliefs without the government telling us how we should live and act im proud of this soldier for standing up for his beliefs that's what he is fighting for if you holly rollers want forced religion then move to another country

Think of all the atheist that have died protecting your rights as a US citizen, even the freedom of religion, yet now they want to use the right for freedom of speech or press, religious fanatics are claiming Atheist don't have the right

Thus Martin Heidegger begins his search for «being» with the analysis of Da - sein, man's being there, his concrete existence in space and time with the attendant realities of care, anxiety, freedom, working, using, deciding and dying.

He told us: «I live for religious freedom, and I am ready to die for this cause... We will bring a change in the life of those who are living in darkness, we will bring a change in the lives of those who don't have hope, and we will bring a smile on the faces of those living under severe harassment and victimisation... This is the key objective of my life — to live for those who are voiceless, who are suffering.»

Homo Voluntatis can not give an account of a freedom worth sacrificing, and even dying, for.

Mindful that even as new principles are proclaimed, old habits die hard and citizens and politicians could tend to entangle government and religion (e.g., «the appointment of chaplains to the two houses of Congress» and «for the army and navy» and «[r] eligious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings and fasts»), he considered the question whether these actions were «consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom» and responded: «In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative.

He died as a martyr for the cause of human dignity and freedom.

Thus, we see a claim which makes sense of all the martyrdoms of our time: Martyrs today no longer die explicitly for Jesus Christ nor for the freedom of the Spirit as was the case in the first two periods we had considered, but they die for human justice, i.e., an urgent new action is needed to defend those who are overwhelmed by the weight of totalitarianism.

«I don't know if the most effective way is to sit down during the national anthem with a country that's providing you freedom, providing you $ 16 million a year... when there are black minorities that are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan for less than $ 20,000 a year.»

Denease draws inspiration for her portrayal from a quote attributed to «Mum Bett» who once said, «Any time, any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it — just to stand one minute on God's airth (earth) a free woman — I would.»

Because they think their «freedom» to entertain themselves at births and get paid for it is more important than whether babies live or die.

The former Member of Parliament (MP) for Jomoro acknowledged that Dr Nkrumah had his shortcomings but emphasised that «he lived and died for the emancipation of African freedom, that is why till today he is being [idolised]».