Sentences with phrase «of poor immigrants»

A pinch of sea level rise, a dash of increased storms (the real thing, not the phoney Xtreme Weather being peddled today) and millions of poor immigrants from the farms and you have a recipe for large scale loss of life and economic hardship for the survivors for decades.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, a former school teacher of poor immigrants on the outskirts of the American Dream, recognized the awesome power of the federal government to ensure that all students, regardless of socioeconomic status, receive a quality education.

In reality, the marchers were celebrating the right and duty of the native French to insult the religion of poor immigrants.

Not exact matches

Enabling the working poor, many of them immigrants (hence the name Tio, which means «uncle» in Spanish), to pay their bills for a low fee and avoid late penalties or service interruptions was simply the right thing to do.

But I believe that newer immigrants from poorer countries are hardworking and not afraid of doing jobs that people here don't want to do.

Because many of these immigrants — especially those who are here illegally — are poor or underemployed, the area provides a fertile recruiting ground for cartel operatives.

I grew up some what poor until the age of 12, my parents where European immigrants that came to Canada with not a penny to their name and worked hard.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

98 % of nuns and sisters do wonderful work with the poor, the homeless, the immigrant and broken - heart.

But gaps in the justice and compassion of a society require government intervention to secure the common good, which is not common until it includes the poor, the immigrant, the sick, the disabled, the unborn.

In this last connection, and again with an eye toward immigrants and the poor, the GOP would be wise to strengthen its reputation as the party of community and order.

And far many more benefited as the Church aided the poor, treated the sick and helped assimilate wave uponwave of immigrants... Neighborhoods were anchored by parish churches, and by parochial schools that still serve as models of education.»

But the Bible bears witness to another God, a God who hears the cries of the poor and defends the orphans, widows and immigrants.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

What if we modeled the marriages, the families, care for the poor, and the treatment of the immigrant and the oppressed in a manner that demonstrates the heart of God as early Christians did?

As poor and desolate as they were, these immigrants were able to ignite, not decimate, the economies of their adopted homes and build whole new industries and centers of trade that had not existed and may never have existed had the refugees never arrived.

A Christian can not choose not to speak on behalf of the poor, the immigrants, the elderly, the disabled, and the family.

Our task now is to support the good in Mr. Trump's policies and to resist the bad — and thereby prove to our countrymen that the meaning of «pro-life» begins with the unborn child, but in embracing the poor, the elderly and the immigrant, it never ends there.

Perceiving a stark and growing contrast between respectable middle - class families and the «teeming broods» of new immigrants in the urban centers, progressive leaders turned to eugenic science to control what seemed the otherwise uncontrollable plight of the poor.

What many of the immigrants hoped for, as Hannah Arendt has pointed out, is not «to each according to his ability,» nor even «to each according to his need» but that old dream of the poor, «to each according to his desire.»

Would they act like a Christian as Jesus stated or as a Capitalist and reject all of Jesus teaching regarding wealth and the treatment of the poor, the sick the disabled, immigrants and those in prison.

Another response of the Churches and people of wealth to the needs of the immigrant and poor laborer was the settlement house.

After all, she was a poor girl in an immigrant family with a great deal of financial and medical troubles, for all their pre-Raphaelite pretensions.

If the Puritans lashed Quakers and hung «witches,» the Southern gentlemen exploited, lashed, and hung recalcitrant negroes — as in a more subtle way the burgeoning commercial - industrial upper classes of the North exploited and abused the newly emergent industrial working classes of immigrants and poor whites, especially in the growing cities of the Northeast.

For the United States, those changing circumstances involved the children and grandchildren of poor Catholic immigrants.

«Here a set of poor Irishmen [Newman's first congregation, in Alcester Street, Birmingham, was in large part made up of poor Irish immigrants], coming and going at harvest time, or a colony of them lodged in a miserable quarter of a vast metropolis.

But the fact remains that Ted Kennedy rolled on from the events at Edgartown and molded a reputation as a social justice warrior, a champion of immigrants, universal health care, and the poor.

Now this has to be beyond window - dressing of doing drive - by ministry «to» and «among» the urban poor, immigrants, and the rich, racially - ethnic diversity of the global church present in urban centers.

It's almost impossible to claim devotion to the Jesus of the Scriptures, while refusing refugees, expelling immigrants, vilifying brown people, worshiping political power, guarding borders and neglecting the poor — which is exactly the point.

The tide of immigration increased, and more of the poor are immigrants «passing through» poverty, soon to be poor no longer.

Mishpat, or «putting things right» for widows, orphans, immigrants, and the poor (the «quarter of the vulnerable»), is the fruit of tzedakah — primary justice, or «living righteously.»

So I hope that as he flies home on September 27, the Holy Father will understand that American Catholics share every ounce of his passion for Christian service and human dignity — beginning with the unborn child, but not ending there; including the poor and the immigrant, but reaching from conception to natural death... and confirming that the «joy of the Gospel» comes from a Gospel of Life.

On this question, the bishops have a long - standing and settled conviction — not unrelated to the immigrant history of Catholicism in this country — that a generous immigration policy is good for poor people seeking opportunity, good for America, and good for the Catholic Church.

News of the event spread rapidly among blacks, Latinos and whites, the prosperous and the poor, immigrants and natives.

As Christopher Caldwell outlines in a Weekly Standard essay («The Migrants of Calais,» March 7, 2016), the winners in the global economy share economic interests with immigrants from the poor world.

Leon said that, with God's blessing, we can see that all of us - «whether brown, black or white, male or female, first generation immigrant American or Daughter of the American Revolution, gay or straight, rich or poor» - are made in God's image.

In the 1880s Walter Rauschenbusch was a Baptist pastor in the Hell's Kitchen district of New York City, where he served a poor, hurting, immigrant congregation and where he converted to the social gospel.

Basically the people left in England now are a mixture of immigrants and ancestors of Americans that were too dumb, poor, or intellectually evolved to get out of that shithole when they had the chance.

The son of poor Greek immigrants who settled in Chicago at the turn of the century, DeMet has become one of the most popular figures in financial and sports circles here.

Are you black, Latina, single, too young, too old, immigrant, depressed, disabled, poor, fat, all of the above?

Employing wet nurses, which had been a common practice among wealthier women, became less common as wet nursing, most often performed by poor women, immigrants, and women of color, became more stigmatized, and as safer breast milk alternatives, such as sterilized condensed milk, became available.25 Instead, during this «chemical period» in infant feeding, medical authorities took charge, partially by devising complicated «percentage» formulas only they could administer as breast milk replacements.26 As Rima Apple and others have amply shown, the result was the «medicalization of motherhood,» or «scientific motherhood.»

A day earlier, Cuomo addressed a group of union workers and said he was «raised by poor immigrants from South Jamaica,» a neighborhood in Queens, New York.

The so - called «racist vans», which drove around poor, mixed areas of London with some pretty ugly Children of Men - style demands for illegal immigrants to «go home», recently forced Twitter into a spasm of liberal outrage.

I say to them, start with me, Andrew Cuomo, the grandson of Andrea and Immacolata Cuomo, Italian poor immigrants,» he tells a roomful of people who are mostly immigrants.

On its website the Alliance party describes its aims as being «to build a Northern Irish society devoid of segregation, sectarianism and prejudice where everyone - Catholic or Protestant, black or white, local or immigrant, rich or poor, young or old - can live their live the way they want, free from fear».

If Labour need to make a break from New Labour then get rid of Blair because it stinks of his control within Labour at the moment, saying immigration is a Tory problem would make the public laugh out loud, saying we did make some mistakes, to try and get UKIP voters back, will not work, you tried to change the voting pattern by bringing in poor immigrants who did not end up voting.

First, although it's hard to imagine for a lot of people, many people — particularly the elderly, first generation immigrants, the poor, or the marginalised — just don't have access to online tools of democratic engagement.

A new version of the SAT has longer and harder reading passages and more words in math problems, which some educators and college admissions officers to fear will penalize students who have not been exposed to a lot of reading, or who speak a different language at home — like immigrants and the poor.

But for many women - as well as people of color, immigrants, the working poor, other marginalized communities, and anyone with work & personal responsibilities - it's still nearly impossible to get to the polls.