Sentences with phrase «of abolitionist»

Dustin McDaniel, executive director of the Abolitionist Law Center, puts it bluntly: «You look at a Google map of the prison and see how it's surrounded by this coal ash dump — it's just blindingly obvious that this is a really bad idea.»

Here the artist presents a portrait of abolitionist Harriet Tubman with her first husband, John, to whom she was married from 1844 to 1851.

This report examines the emergence of an organized abolitionist movement in Britain by 1787 and assesses how important this social movement was in achieving the passage of abolitionist legislation in 1807.

Olds» haunting, singular first novel takes the form of a quest to understand the fiery soul of abolitionist John Brown.

I would be in the grand Grimké house on East Bay Street in Charleston, or in the work yard where the Grimké slaves carried on behind hidden walls, or I might be on a ship sailing north, or in the attic room of an abolitionist home in Philadelphia.

A mystery to himself, Victor suppresses his memories of his childhood on a plantation, and works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines.

The Liberty Bell was known as the «Independence Bell» or the «Old Yankee's Bell» until 1837, when it was adopted by the American Anti-Slavery Society as a symbol of the abolitionist movement.

Lincoln relies on Republican Party founder Francis Preston Blair's (Hal Holbrook) support to wrangle votes from border - state Republicans, and Republican Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) becomes the face of the abolitionist push.

Seven posters citing the words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, accompanied by a jersey of former NFL star Colin Kaepernick, were neatly arranged outside Syracuse City Hall on East Washington Street.

-- A black - and - white photo of Frederick Douglass, a leader of the abolitionist movement and a Rochester resident.

The underlying assumption of supporters of an abolitionist approach is that all sex workers are victims.

Explore the Black Spaces Matter exhibition to take in the aesthetics and architectonics of an abolitionist neighborhood (Boston)

American feminism of the 19th century was born of the abolitionist movement, and of equal significance with Friedan's book as impetus for the current women's movement was the experience of women in the civil rights and antiwar protests of the «60s.

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.

Martin Luther King and the majority of the abolitionist and later civil rights fighters held that there is a God.

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.

Turn one corner and you'll see hip - hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash's turntables, then turn another and find an 1848 edition of the abolitionist handbook The Anti-Slavery Harp.

People's moral and civil rights are nowadays subjected to mundane abuses of Federalism, the father of adoption's secularism and divorcee of theocracy whose many so many autocrats are of the abolitionists within Christendom's creeds of embittered many; now marrying into the servile atheists euphemisms giving rises to the ever damned younger infidels of socially perverse and vulgar demeaning pragmatisms via emotionalized pleasurable natures, leading down the future's committed vile systems of embittered communalisms reaping the awaiting harbingers» coming wraths of despotisms accruals.

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

Some speak of abolitionists as if they were all violent crazy people.

Most of the abolitionists» John Brown being the most prominent exception» eventually adopted a latitudinarian reading of Scripture, emphasizing the Spirit; some even boldly declared that if the Bible sanctioned slavery they wanted no more to do with it.

Documentarian Rob Rapley, the writer and director of the series, talked with Religion News Service about the role religion played in the lives of the abolitionists.

A couple of abolitionists (Morgan Freeman and Stellan Skarsgård) believing the slaves are entitled to their freedom team up with Roger S. Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey), an unrefined young attorney approaching the case from a legal rather than moral standpoint.

Taken into custody and tried for piracy and murder, the «Amistad Africans» gain the support of abolitionists and lawyers led by freed man Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman), stuffy Reaction Shot (Stellan Skarsgård), and earnest do - gooder Roger Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey).

About me, I have a clutch of abolitionists — big - whiskered, wide - bellied, bald - headed men boycotting sugar but smelling of tobacco and burning candle after candle as they plot deep into the night.

Since the days of the abolitionists, Berea College has had the noble mission to promote the cause of Christ, which may account for Powell's rhetorical style.

Not exact matches

Whether implying a 19th century abolitionist was alive or ignoring a handshake from the German Chancellor, Trump provided plenty of fodder for ridicule from his online critics and amusement from his supporters.

We are no more - and no less - heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century.

As the abortion language represents the sole area of disagreement among lawmakers on this vital legislation, trafficking abolitionists are eager to see a compromise worked out.

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 novelist Marilynne Robinson shows the destructive effect of all that blood on the idealism of the neo-Puritanical, abolitionist MIDWEST.

Even Wood can not help noticing Christianity's «supreme usefulness to people of contrary viewpoints» — including slaveholders and abolitionists.

As far as «advocacy for slavery» goes, you might want to check out who the first abolitionist were, especially in Britain and what they gave up to see the ending of slavery.

Dalahäst If you dug through all of Church history you might find a few leaders like St. Patrick who openly opposed slavery, but the vast majority regarded it as consistent with Christian theology up until the general abolitionist movement.

The abolitionists had to turn to va - gue elastic phrases like the «love thy neighbor» sort of thing and stretch it to fit what they wanted.

The abolitionists were merely following the secular thinking of the enlightenment.

I think it's important to note which branch of Christianity was influential in the abolitionists movement.

Early abolitionists lead with this statement because they couldn't find a condemnation of slavery in the Bible.

Then I wonder why all the abolitionist groups were Christian and all of the pro slavers were Atheist and non religious.

More than half of all defenses of slavery were written by pastors who cited Scripture to make their case, and Noll immerses the reader in primary sources to unpack and understand those defenses as well as the counter-arguments made by abolitionists.

Many Bible - believing Christians, including those who were uncomfortable with slavery, just weren't buying the abolitionist argument that placed the «spirit of the law» over the «letter of the law.»

As you can see, Christians advocating for the preservation of slavery did not characterize their abolitionist opponents as simply disagreeing with them on the interpretation of the biblical text, but instead tended to accuse them of not taking the Bible seriously at all.

Noll explains that abolitionists had a far more challenging task, for they had to appeal instead to the «broad sweep of Scripture» and to generalities regarding justice, love, and common humanity.

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

This is part of the approach abolitionists and first wave feminists propose as they developed a method of interpreting Scripture that exposed both theological errors and the self - interest of slave - owner.

For one thing, we aimed to show that, contrary to the abolitionist claim that the system is arbitrary, in fact it is only the very worst of the worst who are executed in the U.S. today.

[Noll also points to arguments put forth by some abolitionists that said that while the Bible never condemns slavery per se, it does condemn the kind of slavery practiced in the American South.

Remember, morals change in society; look at the abolitionist, women's suffrage, and civil rights movement, all of them originally didn't have «morality» on their side, but as society changed, the morals changed.

In Gore Vidal's novel Lincoln, the abolitionist Senator Wade says to the president: «There is no doubt in my mind as to the justice of our cause and the evil of theirs.»

Think of Galileo, the abolitionists, or those that worked for women's equality.