Sentences with phrase «great abolitionist»

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A few minutes away is the National Historic Site that preserves the last home of Frederick Douglass, the great American abolitionist, writer, and statesman.

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.

The story of the abolitionists» victory, in the face of great opposition, offers much hope to the pro-life cause.

You have not studied much about the role of Christians and Christian churches in the abolitionist movements both in the United States and in Great Britain, have you?

And to accept the arguments of the abolitionist, our great - great - grandparents had to see beyond the «plain meaning» of proof texts like Ephesians 6:1 - 5, Colossians 3:18 - 25; 4:1, and I Timothy 6:1 - 2 and instead be compelled by the general sweep of Scripture toward justice and freedom.

The reaction is hardly a new one: abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier wrote to Sarah and Angelina Grimke, early American abolitionists and advocates of women's rights, about their concern for women: «Is it not forgetting the great and dreadful wrongs of the slave in a selfish crusade against some paltry grievance of [your] own?»

Coincidentally, my great, great, great grandfather was an abolitionist.»

If you'd bother researching before opening your pathetic little mouth, you would have discovered that Mormons were abolitionist, something that caused a great deal of friction between them and the other residents of Missouri in the early days of the church.

Consequently, in order to provide greater protection for animals, Richard Martin, together with the Reverend Arthur Broome and fellow MP and slave trade abolitionist William Wilberforce, founded the world's first animal welfare charity, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), in a London coffee shop in 1824.

Indeed, it could be argued that the rapid expansion of communication technologies in the decades leading up to the war, which made it easier for reformers to get their arguments out, gave abolitionists a far greater role in the sectional conflict than their numbers would suggest.

Abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman will grace a new $ 20 bill: «With this decision, our currency will now tell more of our story and reflect the contributions of women as well as men to our great democracy,» Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said.

Dwarfed by the enormity of what it means to illustrate, the diffuse Amistad divides its energies among many concerns: the pain and strangeness of the captives» experience, the Presidential election in which they become a factor, the stirrings of civil war, and the great many bewhiskered abolitionists and legal representatives who argue about their fate.

Apart from Day - Lewis's mighty turn — poised between clomping Illinois farm lawyer and brooding thinker — there's career - high work from Tommy Lee Jones as Republican scowler Thaddeus Stevens, a fierce abolitionist who learns to compromise for the greater good.

The Great Hall also hosted abolitionist Frederick Douglass, women's suffrage champions Susan B. Anthony and Victoria Woodhull, Samuel Gompers, and the earliest workers» rights campaign movements.

Over 150 years ago, during the Civil War, the great American abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave a speech titled «Pictures and Progress,» which spoke to the ways in which images shaped our understanding of life.

Cooper was a prominent Democrat, but with the party split over slavery, he was happy to host a leading abolitionist in the newly built Great Hall.

Let's remember her love of life, and the powerful inspiration of her namesake, the great orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass who said, «Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.»