Sentences with phrase «of lynching in»

Popularized by singer Billie Holiday, the series title Strange Fruit comes from a poem by Abel Meeropol, who wrote the infamous words «Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze; Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees» after seeing a photograph of a lynching in 1936.

Born into slavery, Ida B. Wells became an educator, author, and renowned civil rights activist who was instrumental in stopping the practice of lynching in the South.

The reality of lynching in America, however, is quite different, something highlighted in EJI's groundbreaking report, «Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror.»

That same month, the Equal Justice Initiative will open a new museum of African - American history dedicated to educating people on the history and legacy of lynching in the U.S.

Not exact matches

In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

One pro-lynching activist, speaking in 1897 during the heyday of lynching — an extrajudicial form of capital punishment — was more explicit: «If it takes lynching to protect woman's dearest possession from drunken, ravening human beasts... then I say lynch a thousand a week if it becomes necessary.»

Also Tuesday, hundreds of Israeli Arabs marched in Shfaram in northern Israel to remember a 2005 attack in which an Israeli deserter and Kach member shot dead four people on a bus before being lynched.

They come amid growing scrutiny of blunders Facebook has made in policing content around the globe — from riots and lynchings sparked by the spread of hate speech and misinformation in countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar, to inflammatory posts attacking religions and races — even after U.S. users flagged them.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

He describes «the largest mass lynching in U.S. history,» the victims of which were Italian - Americans, in New Orleans in 1891.

For over three hundred years slaves were lynched, castrated and murdered in the name of Jesus.

People burned as witches, blacks lynched by Christians in this county, people killed in human sacrifices, servants killed to accompany pharaohs on their journeys to the afterlife, untold numbers of people killed in various cultures because they were deemed to have offended God in some way, and so on.

This explains why the founders of the KKK were Christians and most lynchings of blacks in the 20th century were committed by Christians.

That's the point; even the most racist members of the KKK back in the 60's believed they were being good Christians when they lynched blacks and bombed Jewish homes.

Yes, the Palestinian Authority can still censor damaging video footage, as it did in the case of the mob lynching of two Israeli soldiers, and the Israeli government can put its spin on the news.

My racist relatives in Mississippi used to talk about the moral decay brought by integrating black people into white society... of cours, e they didn't complain about the cross burnings or lynchings being moral decay..

The Cross and the Lynching Tree (and The Warmth of Other Suns) helps fill in those blanks.

Not - so - distant history is replete with «good Christians» participating in lynchings, feuds, duels, secret attacks in the middle of the night, and more.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

From that time on, executions took place within the confines of prisons — except for lynchings, which continued in some areas of the country without legal sanction.

That is what is wrong with the kind of lynch mob mentality we see today — blanket condemnation and then l.u.s.t. for vengeance (with a vengeance) Duke U., the I.M.F guy in NYC, Casey Anthony It is actually (frightening) to see the cry for some kind of lynching..

This story is simply business as usual, in an uncivilized area like Texas, home of Bush, Perry, and the last lynching in the entire country.

The bible Belt is also the lynching belt, the segregation belt, the military belt, the illiteracy belt - When I read the Gospels I read Jesus telling me about the kind of relationship i should have with God and my fellows - how I should live how I should behave - we are supposed to care for the poor not lower taxes for the rich and tell poor kids with no health insurance to suck it up - starting a war is not Christian regardless of the provocation Why do you need the 10 commandments on the wall in the courthouse when every town has multiple churches let the churches put up signs with the commandments - do you know what Moses did when he came down the mountain - he lead his most trusted men is a slaughter of 3000 Jews, read it

Never mind, of course, all the lynchings, burning at the stake, torture, slavery and the like committed in the name of Christianity.

That Patterson recognizes this in his second chapter, where he reflects on how the difficulties of the South during the «transitional period» led to the activities of lynch mobs, makes even more striking his disinclination to extend this objectivity to African - American men.

«Black Christians believed that just knowing that Jesus went through an experience of suffering in a manner similar to theirs gave them faith that God was with them, even in suffering on lynching trees just as God was present with Jesus in suffering on the cross.»

He went up, John says, «not publicly, but almost in secret,» as if he wished to observe without being observed, taking the temperature of feeling in metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostilitin secret,» as if he wished to observe without being observed, taking the temperature of feeling in metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostilitin metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostilitin the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostilitin danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostilitIn the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostilitin September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostilitin Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostility.

For we are all imitators: other brave sheriffs would follow; to be a dauntless sheriff would come to be recognized as the correct and only the dreaded disapproval would fall to the share of the other kind; courage in this office would become custom, the absence of it a dishonor, just as courage presently replaces the timidlty of the new soldier; then the mobs and the lynchings would disappear, and --

Just remember: Why was Joseph Smith lynched, the Mountain Meadows massacurre, Why did Brigham Young keep polygamy a secret if it was directed directly from God, mormon engineers ignoring safety parameters which caused the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, Mormon officials bribing the Olympic committe to get the Winter Olympice in Salt Lake City, the Book of Mormon being revised hundreds of times.

Obviously abortion is a lynch pin issue in any election because it is really one of the few issues that hits upon both the religious and secular implications of politics, and I don't usually support or vote for pro-choice candidates.

If my grandparents had been beaten or lynched for the colour of their skin, if my parents had suffered under oppressive segregation, if I had a friend or relative who had been shot down in cold blood by a police department because that is just way more likely if you're Black in America, I'd have been angry, too.

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

Every schoolyard pile - on and childhood act of coordinated cruelty, every lynching, every swarm of decent people caught up in the madness of the mob is a pale reflection of the crowd crying «Crucify him!»

Spontaneous lynchings of black people in America's Deep South.

Jesus» trial is portrayed with the iconic image of early - 20th - century lynchings in the American South.

In the post, he recommended A Different Mirror, Between the World and Me, The Cross the Lynching Tree, Divided by Faith, Just Mercy, Let Nobody Turn Us Around, More than Just Race, The New Jim Crow, The Warmth of Other Suns and Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the CafeteriIn the post, he recommended A Different Mirror, Between the World and Me, The Cross the Lynching Tree, Divided by Faith, Just Mercy, Let Nobody Turn Us Around, More than Just Race, The New Jim Crow, The Warmth of Other Suns and Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteriin the Cafeteria.

A Christian man accused of being involved in the lynching of two Muslim men believed to have been connected to the 2015 twin church bomb attack in Pakistan, has died while in jail.

Too many of us left in the body that are unwilling to give up on the kind of honesty and humility we had in our old pastor and won't allow the rabid sheep to lynch another one.

Ramihrdus of Cambrai (1076 or 1077)(lynched) Peter of Bruys († 1130)(lynched) Gerard Segarelli († 1300) Maifreda da Pirovano († 1300) Andrea Saramiti († 1300) Fra Dolcino († 1307)(never tried by Catholic Church), Italy Sister Margherita († 1307), Italy Brother Longino († 1307), Italy Marguerite Porete († 1310) Botulf Botulfsson († 1311), the only known heretic executed in Sweden Jacques de Molay (1243 — 1314), burned after conviction by a tribunal under the control of King Philip IV of France, France Geoffroi de Charney († 1314), burned with Jacques de Molay above, France.

(The presence of Dalits in Gujarat's lynch mobs attests to their success.)

A Christian man accused of being involved in the lynching of two Muslim men believed to have been connected... More

We need to understand the legacy of lynching more honestly and carefully, we need to even revisit segregation and the legacy that it's created if we're going to make progress I think there is a continuing presumption of dangerousness and guilt that gets assigned to people of color, I think it would break Dr. King's heart to know that black youth in New York are getting stopped and frisked, that this police violence that has been such a problem for over a century continues, that we haven't made the commitment to overcoming bigotry and race discrimination in the way we need to.

Did you by chance see any of those black and white photos from back in the 30s at all those black lynchings?

The point is that the One who is supremely revealed as a forsaken, impotent and abandoned lynch - law victim simply can not be reconciled with the catalogue of divine attributes listed in most forms of theism.

For me, strong individual stats must be backed by a solid team defensive performance and in this regard, Koulibaly is the lynch pin of the Napoli defense that conceded the least amount of goals behind Juventus in Serie A this season.

Just three years before Trice arrived, a white mob in Duluth, 175 miles north of Minneapolis, lynched three black men who had come to town with the traveling circus, accused of raping a white woman.

but I can't believe that a certain female writer (initials «SG»), now with (the trash news - site) CNN, and a consultant to the film, hasn't been mentioned... That she's associated with this project (and we all know how hip deep she was in the lynching of Joe) gives us all we need to know about how it will be slanted...

I will be crucified for what I am about to say but OZIL came to ARSENAL as a nervy last minute buy when WENGER was lynched on that first game against VILLA after not doing nothing at all the whole summer he went in a RUSH and bought OZIL at the very end of the SUMMER TRANSFER.....

We do nt need Moyes or the whoring Dutchman, give him a bit of time our present manager will sort things out and move us forward, you can moan all you like but his record thus far is OK.Anyway look on the bright side we've started a trend look at the amount of former players who are «interim» managers at premier league clubs, Welcome Giggsy, I doubt you; ll get the same level of abuse as Tim, but you» better start winning quick or the Manu lynch mob will be in full cry.COYS

It included the $ 7 million precedent - setting judgment against the United Klans of America on behalf of the mother of Michael Donald, a young black man lynched by the Klan in Mobile, Alabama.