Sentences with phrase «moral issue of slavery»

We had a dream — that the President would stand as firm as Abraham Lincoln when he faced the great moral issue of slavery — and, like Franklin Roosevelt or Winston Churchill, he would speak with the public, enlisting their support and reassuring them.

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We reject slavery as absolutely immoral — such rejection of slavery on moral ground clearly has its roots in the Bible, yet is far beyond the way slavery, as a moral issue or a social and economic institution, is discussed in the Bible.

It faces openly the fact that the Bible is ambiguous about many great moral issues, such as slavery, the place of women, and war and peace.

The lesson covers topical issues and ask questions that really focus the students on the moral consequences of slavery.

After a succession of iterations riffing on Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a change of context is energizing - especially when the game tackles thorny issues like slavery and the moral compass of the ruling class.

The Guardian reported: «Averting the worst consequences of human - induced climate change is a «great moral issue» on par with slavery, according to the leading NASA climate scientist Prof Jim Hansen.»

James Hansen, the NASA scientist who is perhaps the most respected authority on global warming, says that climate change is the predominant moral issue of the 21st century, comparable to slavery faced by Lincoln and the response to Nazism faced by Churchill.