Sentences with phrase «fighting prejudice»

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Schools are reflections of our society, and they can and should play an important role in fighting prejudice and promoting acceptance.

McCraney is among several LGBT nominees, which also includes Mica Levi (Best Original Score for Jackie), Scott Rudin (Best Picture for Fences), Benj Pasek (up twice for Best Original Song for La La Land) and Bryon Howard, co-director of Best Animated Feature nominee Zootopia, which tells the story of a female rabbit police officer fighting prejudice and triumphing over xenophobia.

That is what happens when fighting prejudice bigots like Bob when it comes to civil rights.

something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience: to make a religion of fighting prejudice.

Now think back on what it took for African Americans and women to get their civil rights, it took good people fighting the prejudice and bigotry of those brainwashed by ancient beliefs.

Prejudice is visible in spades here, being committed by the people who claim they fight prejudice wherever they find it.

If there's one factor that fights prejudice, psychologists say, it's contact, like neighborly greetings and children mixing in school.

You'll need a strong relationship to fight the prejudice.

Paired with young Jewish lawyer Friedman in a segregationist court, he's forced to fight prejudice as he and Friedman work their case — which helped set the stage for the future Civil Rights Movement.

This is why, if we are really serious about finding the Mo Farahs of the film world, and the Tammy Grey - Thompsons of the theatre world we must begin to fight the prejudice in bolder, simpler terms.

It was Roy's vision to form a national association of German Shepherd owners and breeders to fight the prejudice against the breed, lift the many bans on the breed, including importation, and to improve the temperament and conformation of the breed generally.

A well - behaved and obedient Pit Bull will be a great ambassador for the breed and help fight prejudice and misconceptions.

Not exact matches

And I'd been guilty of perpetuating this sort of prejudice by perpetuating stereotypes of psychics as shifty, exotic people or as being unreal, unable to be found as mothers or neighbors or activists like Emily, who's active in social justice - based causes, particularly the fight for transgender equal rights.

Cuban also admitted that prejudice is something everyone has to fight.

Keala Lusk, a former Uber software engineer, wrote on Medium that during her time at Uber she saw «malicious fights for power, interns repeatedly putting in over 100 hours a week but only getting paid for 40, discrimination against women, and prejudice against the transgender community.»

I had to fight my immediate prejudice and remind myself of something I've talked with others about for years — the increasing size of books, both fiction and non-fiction, to justify the inflated pricing from publishers.

It's now the center of a legal fight tinged with allegations of racial and religious prejudices.

The effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine, wars in the Middle East because of religion and killings in big cities and small towns all over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.

One should not fight God and insist that he give us his Word in another way, or, as we are more apt to do, rework his Word along theological or cultural prejudices that turn into a minefield of principles, propositions, or imperatives but denude it of its ad hoc character as truly human.

For this reason we can not use the gospel and our theology as defensive weapons in the fight between the religious and the non-religious; rather they are to be used, without prejudice, to discuss with the non-religious the phenomenon and problems of religion and the everlasting love of God.

Tthe effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine, wars in the Middle East because of religion and killings in big cities and small towns all over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.

martin king advocated for change unfortunately — this has not always been non violent and the courts fights consistently to get people not to be prejudiced and discriminatory — when even they themselves are the same prejudicial and discriminatory because... that is the way people are.

We have to always be engaged and fight hate, fear, and prejudice with reason and truth.

The 90 - year - old said his experiences as a veteran of World War II, when the United States was fighting Japan, have given him insight over the years into the need to combat «invidious prejudice.»

In such situations, preaching has to address these easy assumptions and blind familiarities; the text of Scripture has to fight its way through the «almost Scripture» that is everywhere to be found and passes for Biblical support of custom and prejudice.

Civil rights fights have always ended up in the court systems because too often the prejudice and hatred toward a minority group blinds people from being rational enough to understand the REAL facts.

To fight that shows religion to be prejudices and bigoted not because of the values being promoted by a group of individuals but because of who they are (which is the definition of bigotry).

This is how scary I country has become... the fact that this pastor can feel so comfortable in his insane rantings is because the right wing and their attempt to social engineer now that they got some power thru their fear mongering and the tea party types is just putting us into a free fall to the dark ages of prejudice and social control we fought so many decades to evolve from...

In society it becomes organized in a large scale and we need to fight them on the structural level, but we need to counter them on a personal level — the question of life - style, attitude, irrational prejudices against others and other areas.

In South Korea, where 90 percent of children born to single moms are put up for adoption, single moms are becoming activists to fight back against societal prejudice.

So whilst fighting against prejudices, the law and a work life balance, is it a crime for fathers to start dating again?

She was recently honored by the Human Rights Campaign with its Visibility Award for her work advocating for marriage equality and fighting stigma and prejudice.

The Labour party has always fought for equal treatment, and against prejudice and discrimination, but, in their desperation to steer the party in a certain direction, and get their favoured leadership candidate elected; many party members are now betraying their own ideals and values.

His words are some of the strongest he has given on the subject, saying he will fight with every breath to oppose the evil of prejudice against Jewish people.

For us, World AIDS Day is such an initiative, where uniting in the fight against HIV must begin with accepting scientific evidence for the basis and treatment of HIV / AIDS, and acknowledging human responsibility and endeavour as the way to reduce harm, to prevent unnecessary suffering and deaths, and to combat prejudice and discrimination.

«We must put pressure on the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to do everything within their power to make the codes of practice statutory, fight for their role so that it is not further reduced and we should continue to expose this Coalition Government's weakness in tackling prejudice and discrimination and their blatant lack of care for vulnerable groups.»

Dromm also said that members of the LGBT community should team up with immigrant communities and support issues pertaining to immigrants such as the Park51 mosque to fight against hate and prejudice.

«We must not permit any kind of question marks and prejudices to affect the young generations, but instead we must act together with determination in the fight against anti-Semitism and in the defense of the United Nations declaration of universal human rights.

Disabled singles have it even worse, since they have to fight with various prejudices.

Having a constant ally in the fight against prejudice and racial inequality is not only the pillar of support you find in every great relationship, but also proof that there's no inherent bias, just injustice.

A prejudiced character is forced to live amongst those he hates, only to find that the enemy isn't so bad, and in fact might be worth fighting for.

In an age of open racism, fervent nationalism and anti-establishment passion, two politically engaged and idealistic young lovers, Marcus Hill and Jas Mitra, fight back against the injustice and deep - rooted prejudice they face on a daily basis.

Amy Winehouse's «Frank»; «Mr. Robot» is the spiritual successor of «Fight Club»; «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies» director Burr Steers; Uncertain future of film criticism; Joe Gibbons goes to prison.

The movie's main concern is the characters» subversive battle against deranged prejudice, using the best available tools to fight oppression: Giving a voice to the voiceless and revealing the humanity of those who have been methodically painted otherwise by bigots in positions of power and influence.

From what I could tell it's essentially just - don't be prejudiced, go in to help anyone who deserves a fair fight.

The most entertainment I got from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was watching Matt Smith channel his Doctor Who personality as a whimsical goofball, which obviously isn't a very good thing considering that it's a movie about gorgeous women fighting zombies.

We also find another outsider who becomes a reluctant hero, because, just as the kind of prejudice that fuels this villain (and will later fuel Harry's archnemesis) never really goes away, there's always someone or a group of people to fight it.

We know lots about the traumas and prejudices of our victims during the AIDS epidemic and the battles they fought just to simply live.

Nichols doesn't provide an answer as such, instead asking us to empathise with the beliefs, fears and prejudices of both sets of antagonists fighting to make sense of something that neither can ever truly understand.