Sentences with phrase «for abolishing slavery»

What I * said * if you care to read it, is that, if we were to strictly follow what the bible says, we would have no justification for abolishing slavery and slaves who attempt to follow the bible would not seek their freedom.

@Nah, So they had 2000 years to work on it and you give the church credit for abolishing slavery in the last 100 or so?

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Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

Yet there are many precedents for unanticipated social reversals — the Christian movement to abolish slavery being among the most well known.

«All men created equal» yet it took almost 100 years for slavery to be abolished and a lot of those intelligent founding fathers you think so highly of were slave owners.

Jesus did abolish slavery and all the other misery for men with this law: «Love Your Neighbor as Yourself»

The English reformer William Wilberforce, after successfully leading the struggle to abolish slavery from the British empire, sponsored Parliament's first bill to protect animals — at the same time that movements for human rights began.

When it condones slavery, for example, it never says that slavery is bad, and ought to be abolished.

A couple of examples are; that it is the church that established universities, it is the church that established hospitals, it was church people who worked to abolish slavery in the west, church people lobbied the British Parliament for an age of consent, the emancipation of women comes from Christian teaching.

For the other 1900 years, people and governments used the Bible and religion to justify slavery not abolish it.

Salvation could come not for individuals within that society, but only for society as a whole, when the sin of slavery was abolished.

Guess old Islam was the first to be a cause for your unity from the dates of the crusaders... Then in modern history there came the «Nazi's» then came the «Communists» but today you have the «New Islam»... they were those who united you and got you to abolish slavery and made of you equal as it is today in Black and White!?

People bring up they don't want government in their business, but look if it wasn't for the government the 9 black students who went to school in the south for the 1st time after slavery and aparthied was abolished wouldn't have gotten to that school if the people with their fear and hatred had their way.

Slavery has been the norm for practically all of human history and was only recently abolished starting about two hundred years ago.

A few cynics chided Lincoln for proclaiming free only the slaves in Confederate - controlled states, where he did not possess effective power to make any slave free, but not proclaiming slavery abolished in border states that were under Union control.

Aptly named 13th, for the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, this documentary follows the aftermath of the American Civil War for African Americans, and how slavery has only been perpetuated by different practices throughout the years like disenfranchisement and mass incarceration.

He begins with a plantation in Alabama where slavery has never been abolished: Mam (Lauren Bacall) rules with a iron hand, assisted by her foreman Wilhelm (Danny Glover), a slave who believes his people are not ready for the responsibilities of freedom.

«Lincoln» follows the title character, the 16th president of the United States (played by Daniel Day - Lewis) as he pushes for the passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.

The good and noble deed at the center of the film is the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment, the monumental piece of legislation that definitively abolished American slavery and laid the sturdy groundwork for a century and a half of civil rights struggle.

Instead, Spielberg has chosen to focus on a specific chunk of time: the months between the 16th President's re-election to a second term and his passing the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, abolishing slavery once and for all.

He had just been re-elected and is trying to abolish slavery for good, while seeing an end for the Civil War.

Summary: The Civil War rages on as America's president battles with the House of Representatives for the passage of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery.

His selection of one of the most historic icons of the struggle to abolish slavery and to reach legal equality for African Americans makes it clear.

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