Sentences with phrase «of the abolition movement»

Throughout history, there have been many Christians who looked away, but there also have been many at the forefront of the abolition movement.

I do not feel his vision was utopian; it was a workable vision of community, not unlike many that have worked for white people throughout history, from the Puritans on... It also echoes some communal efforts of the abolition movement among others, and the Civil Rights movement, with Valentine, and Landers, in their speeches echoing Martin Luther King Jr. and the same debate over «gradual» or immediate progress.

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Protestant Christians either initiated or were at the forefront of every major social movement from abolition to child labor, from suffrage to civil rights.

We have been deeply involved in movements for abolition, suffrage, civil rights, economic and environmental justice, and now we are at the forefront of the movement in the church for LGBTQ inclusion.

CNN routinely partners with and praises the work of organizations like International Justice Mission, Not For Sale, and World Relief, and has issued several flattering portraits of «the new Christian abolition movement.»

Despite the efforts of Carter, Martin and more recent advocates, the prison abolition movement in this country is still small.

Consequently, a forward movement of repetition must culminate in an abolition of its original ground.

Yet such a forward movement can not culminate in an abolition of the opposites by returning to a primordial Beginning.

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.

We are all still sorting out the profound moral lessons of the civil rights movement (and even, in some ways, of the abolition of slavery).

Using additional criteria, (which we will discuss later), Webb asserts that the redemptive movement of Scripture supports the abolition of slavery, a more egalitarian approach to women's roles in society, and the continued condemnation of homosexual behavhior.

We see it in the flourishing of fundamentalism; in the controversy raging in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; in the phenomenon of the Jesus freaks, the spreading charismatic movement, the popularity of Transcendental Meditation; in attacks on the National and World councils of churches and the cooling of ardor for such social issues as racial justice, world peace, and the abolition of hunger and malnutrition.

The work of Wesley and the Evangelical Revival brought personal faith to thousands and stirred up movements for reform, such as the abolition of slavery.

In his account of the movement toward the abolition of slavery, Whitehead faced this problem squarely, In his view the long delay in the abolition of slavery after the introduction of the idea of the human soul does not reflect only human willfulness and stubbornness in the pursuit of unjustified self - interest.

, If and to the degree that the democratic movement means the abolition of privilege and the establishment of political human rights, democracy is the symbol for the liberation of men from the vicious circle of force.

When the civil rights movement erupted in the 1960s, social observers suggested that the nation was experiencing a revival of the religious zeal that had inspired abolition, the Social Gospel, and the progressive movement.

Meanwhile a large number of Methodists, particularly in New England, were influenced by the abolition movement.

The Empire State was at the forefront of the Underground Railroad, and a national leader in the abolition and anti-slavery movements.

We are fighting to build a mass movement of the working class, which seeks the abolition of capitalism and its replacement by a social system based on human need, not private profit — i.e., socialism.

The organization's early years chronicled the dawn of the nuclear age and the birth of the scientists» movement, as told by the men and women who built the atomic bomb and then lobbied with both technical and humanist arguments for its abolition,» states the organization's Web site.

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This lively, illustrated, and never simplistic volume about the essential role of blacks in America's early history includes complicated views, such as that of African Americans Richard Allen and James Forten, who opposed the back - to - Africa movement because freed blacks in the U.S. were the strongest fighters for the abolition of slavery.

The abolition was reflective of an overall movement: Inspired by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) in the U.K., the ASPCA formed in New York City in 1866; three years later, the Women's Humane Society opened a shelter in Philadelphia and hired its own animal control officers.

Since all of us are in some way the beneficiaries of cheap fossil fuel, tackling climate change has been like trying to build a movement against yourself — it's as if the gay - rights movement had to be constructed entirely from evangelical preachers, or the abolition movement from slaveholders.

There is, of course, no possibility of a comparison between occupy and the abolition movement.

From the abolition of slavery to women's suffrage, every socio - political movement has had its radical moments in the struggle for recognition.

At the time of the abolition of slavery movement, he wrote his famous essay «On the Duty of Civil Disobedience».