Sentences with phrase «out against slavery»

There were no political parties during the Revolution... and few were speaking out against slavery then... the outspoken critics of slavery, the abolitonists of the early and mid-1800's, were the Radical Republicans.

Please now go back and explain why he didn't speak out against slavery.

Jesus never spoke out against slavery, either.

Not exact matches

An argument against my position, of course, is having African - American soldiers serving at forts named for very or even fantically pro-slavery men (not Lee [although he was okay with slavery], but check out some of the others).

They were AGAINST slavery, that is why Missouri kicked them out with an extermination order.

The false prophets or dreamers who try to lead you astray must be put to death, for they encourage rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of slavery in the land of Egypt.

They pointed out that slavery was practiced by the people of Israel and regulated by God, and that Jesus never said a word against slaveholding.

(CNN)- Which revered religious figure - Moses, Jesus, or the Prophet Mohammad - spoke out boldly and unambiguously against slavery?

And while Scripture can be used to lead us toward the truth that all people are created equal, Scripture itself seems to lean more on the side of supporting slavery than speaking out against it.

In the past the Church as such took a stand against slavery and felt called upon to speak out against child labor even when such speaking hurt profits.

The GOP is following the Whigs (whose brilliant beginnings are now forgotten since they sold out against their conscience on the issues of slavery and manifest destiny) into the dilapidated dustbin of history, and will be commemorated in future history textbooks as the party whose decline began when they sold out to ignorance and religious extremism.

If you take Democrats out of your sentence it reads «Actually originally «conservatives» were those who were against slavery during the American revolution, so if you think slavery was a good part of history then i guess your right, again irony is a female dog

There is no lashing out here against the evils of slavery and a demand that Philemon give up the practice of slave - holding, or even that he set Onesimus, the returned slave, free.

The report, produced in consultation with a number of businesses and NGOs, including Amnesty International, Verité, Engineers Against Poverty and the Institute for Human Rights and Business, examines the root causes of slavery, and sets out priority actions for moving the industry towards greater transparency.

Several celebrities have previously backed the call to ban horse carriages, including Russell Simmons — who, in speaking out against the carriages, compared animal abuse to slavery and Holocaust — and Alan Cumming.

Out of the tumult of history and the psychic torture that is the legacy of slavery, Steven Spielberg forged his most accomplished film since Schindler's List: a ruminative epic that used America's 16th president as a totemic figure against which a nation's progress over the centuries since could be gauged.

A man born and raised in slavery, Stephen turns out to be smarter than any of his masters, but unfortunately his role of servitude has made him use his strengths against his own interests.