Sentences with phrase «to end slavery»

The proceeds from the sale of the book are going to Not For Sale, a campaign to end slavery in the world in our lifetime.

I think you're in need of a little history lesson as to who ended slavery.

It didn't end slavery or give women the right to vote.

Just remember who created this country, who ended slavery, and who leads to economic prosperity.

We are petitioning CNN to bring their international media voice and passion for ending slavery into the Son of God Orphanage.

Specifically the activity around the pass of the 13th Amendment through Congress and the preparations for its ratification, which would ultimately and finally end slavery in America.

I'm all about ending slavery, but don't say Jesus told you to do it...

What could have been an affecting, quiet bit with our most revered national figure ends with a clumsily proselytized mission statement as a black soldier recites the end of the Gettysburg Address — a not - subtle reminder that the mandate of Lincoln's second term carried with it the responsibility to push the 13th amendment ending slavery through a divided Congress.

Hey all, we had an excellent chat with the stars of Belle, the Georgian - era biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate child of a British Lord and an African slave, who was raised into nobility and whose influence helped end slavery in the UK.

You will never end slavery.

Preserving creation for future generations is a moral issue as monumental as ending slavery in the 19th century or fighting Nazism in the 20th century.

Britain and America are the only nations on earth who willingly ended slavery and racism without the foreign interferances only because both were Christian.

But Lincoln never suggested that the Supreme Court end slavery.

The Bible never mentions ending slavery, so it should still be legal?

It is worth mentioning that it was Jim Brown and other religious Christians who worked so hard to end slavery also.

It can remind us that those who so cherished liberty for themselves were willing to enslave and exploit others; that a civil war and long years of struggle were required before the nation legally ended slavery, segregation and discrimination and attempted to redress the harm done to the conquered native people.

Elizabeth «Mum Bett» Freeman, a young, illiterate slave woman, won her freedom in court in 1781 in a landmark case that became the precedent for a 1783 decision that ended slavery statewide.

BRANDED employs survivors of human trafficking from the Nashville, TN based non-profit End Slavery Tennessee.

The college is named after a Pennsylvania congressman who passionately advocated for ending slavery during the Civil War...

Generally regarded as one of the greatest presidents ever, Abraham Lincoln navigated the United States through the bloody chaos of the Civil War and permanently ended slavery in the United States.

Should we regret ending slavery had the Abolition led to economic problems?

«If you are a Catholic man or woman struggling with conflict in your relationships, having a difficult time letting go of the past, needing help managing difficult emotions, or want to end the slavery of addiction, I can help.

Lincoln is today revered for saving the Union as much as for ending slavery.

As he admits to one of his secretaries, lying to Congress is an impeachable act, but he's long since decided to end slavery by any means necessary.

When people are left out, when they're neglected, when they're not supported, and when they're not given the love they need to grow, it becomes an incubator for trafficking, and this refugee crisis, if we want to be serious about ending slavery, we can not ignore them, we can not ignore our support for this issue in that space, because otherwise, we're going to have to deal with it for years to come.

The film focuses on the final months of Lincoln's life, including the passage of the 13th Amendment ending slavery, the surrender of the Confederacy and his assassination.

It is noted not only that he had the same birthday as Lincoln (Lincoln was a particular favorite of the immigrant press — he was because of his humble background seen by the immigrants as a welcoming figure who valued their contribution to America), but also that in his will «Kosciusko requested that the large tracts of land he received for his service in the Revolutionary War be used to help end slavery.»

In the build up to the Civil War, southern states argued the federal government had no authority to tell them to end slavery.

Diego Pfeiffer, 18, a senior at Stoneman Douglas, acknowledged the issue has multiple perspectives and likened the need to toughen gun control to the fight to end slavery and the suffrage movement.

But in ending slavery, wherever it is ended, there is always this Judeo - Christian belief behind it, forged in the era of Roman persecution when the stream of Jewish rabbinical tradition in the form of a Christian sect intertwined with Greek humanism.

Here in the US we ended slavery, got rid of child labor, did lots of things to help in protecting the well - being of people.

AND in Missouri Mormon's encouraged freed black slaves to come and live and campaigned to end slavery.

The Second Great Awakening caused a proliferation of abolitionist groups that worked to end slavery in the U.S. around the time of the Civil War.

We recently spoke with author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy; Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery) about his new book Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life and what inspired him to explore the idea of supernatural phenomenon in an increasingly cynical world.

«This generation has the potential not just to end slavery, they have the potential to do anything,» Vogeltanz said.

Prayer was instrumental in ending slavery, first through the Christians in Great Britain then through the American Christians and churches.

it used to be we strived to do better, that is why we ended slavery, ended segrigation, created Social Security, built roads, public schools, ended child labor, created FEMA, the National Weather Service, FDA, FFA, the Military and all the other programs that give us safe schools, roads, public buildings, homes, food, water and products.

If there can be imported into the guarantee of a republican form of government a moral content to condemn segregation, it is difficult to understand why the same moral reasoning would not have enabled the pre-Civil War Court to end slavery.

Lincoln invoked Jesus to end slavery.

About that same time, William Wilberforce (precisely because of his Christian faith) was fighting to end slavery in the British Empire.