Sentences with phrase «effort of abolition»

I do not feel his vision was utopian; it was a workable vision of community, not unlike many that have worked for white people throughout history, from the Puritans on... It also echoes some communal efforts of the abolition movement among others, and the Civil Rights movement, with Valentine, and Landers, in their speeches echoing Martin Luther King Jr. and the same debate over «gradual» or immediate progress.

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Despite the efforts of Carter, Martin and more recent advocates, the prison abolition movement in this country is still small.

The inexpressible sadness of our era is that as soon as the dream is revived it dies, overwhelmed by the harsh realities of a world where finally only military might settles international disputes and where even the prospect of total annihilation can not generate a sustained effort for the abolition of war.

It also is responsible for evaluating the abolition efforts of any nation with more than 100 slaves.