Sentences with phrase «overcoming prejudice»

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education Established by Steven Spielberg to gather video testimonies from Holocaust survivors, the Institute has broadened its mission to overcoming prejudice, intolerance and bigotry — and the suffering they cause — through use of these testimonies.

In the closing scenes Dumbledore delivers a monologue about overcoming prejudice.

Overall: B A musical tale of two Americans struggling to overcoming prejudice while serving in the South Pacific during World War II, although it focuses more on the song and dance than the inner conflict.

Being Italian - American means overcoming the prejudice and discrimination that most immigrants have faced (as well as those that continue to face these issues) when they came to our shores in the early part of the last century.

Patten says that one of the main barriers to seeing black and white Christians grow closer together involves overcoming prejudice, often of the unconscious sort.

When asked if evangelical ministers had «changed» because of his ministry, Charles replied that he saw many struggling seriously to overcome prejudices and felt that there would be a different attitude in the future.

The WEA plans to «help and train our people to overcome prejudices against other Christian traditions and not to confuse things from the past with present realities,» secretary general Efraim Tendero said.

A gay man's lover has died of AIDS and he tells a reporter that he is comforted by the hope that his friend contributed to overcoming the prejudices of a homophobic society.

Born in Bremen, Germany, Bert Trautmann overcame prejudice and open hostility - from both opposition supporters and his own - to become an unlikely folk hero in post-war Manchester.

So what does Mike think non-travellers like me can do to help overcome prejudice?

Often it is seen that it is the young guy who makes an extra pitch to assist the single boomer lady in overcoming her prejudices, choices, as well as values.

This predator / prey theme also provides an astute conduit to address real contemporary anxieties, demonstrating how fear is intrinsic to ignorance and how difficult it is to overcome prejudices.

An argument can be made that The Badge is about a hick overcoming his prejudices and trying to be a better father, making the picture a sad formula echo of Marc Forster's superior Monster's Ball only without any sort of courage in its revelations.

The lessons focus on not just the obvious things like how bullying is wrong, but why people do it, the different ways people discriminate against each other, where misconceptions about difference originate from and how people have overcome prejudice and adversity.

For that we have to overcome prejudices (we have serious work to do and no time for fun), and accept that teachers and teaching need to change.

Many parents, teachers, and students in wealthy school districts think nothing of throwing the terms «failing school,» «low - performing», etc. at anyone from Windham, Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven — any child from these districts is deemed to be inferior and second - class... it is very hard for the targeted students to overcome these prejudices and for students in wealthy districts to let go of their pre-conceptions.

By all accounts, black and white students alike expected their youthful example of peace and harmony to eventually overcome the prejudices of the older generation.

How this brave, driven young woman overcame prejudice and trauma to pursue her artistic calling to the highest level — her work, once dismissed as démodé for its neoclassicism, now resides in top museums — is a story that warrants such artful retelling.

To overcome this prejudice against existing stockholder of Equity Strategies Fund, and still permit new investments into a mutual fund, a new Fund, Third Avenue Fund, has commenced operations.

In recognizing Augusta Savage A ’25 posthumously with the Saint Gaudens Award, Rachel Mendelsohn A ’14 praised her: «It is always encouraging to find a strong female who has lived and worked against challenges and overcome prejudice to create a body of work that lives on indefinitely.

But I am also somewhat skeptical that a cultural awareness course could truly overcome these prejudices.

He overcame prejudice and other travails.

Not exact matches

Yesterday Mark Cuban made shockingly frank remarks on overcoming one's internal prejudices during a sitdown with Inc.'s Maria Aspan.

This can be a challenge to overcome, particularly if there are underlying prejudices between cultures, making them less inclined to work together.

If, in your rapport - building and qualifying stages of the sales process, you discover some prejudices against your type of product, you'll have to overcome those before you can move forward.

Not merely for Trinity Lutheran but for all Americans, the question is whether the Supreme Court will overcome its longstanding indifference to the layers of religious prejudice in the Blaine Amendments.

Thankfully, the culture has changed and many of the HUMAN (not divine) prejudices have been overcome.

Christians, then, should make their arguments carefully, winsomely, graciously, and firmly, in the hope that «the law written on the heart» will overcome emotional prejudice, intellectual laziness, and moral compromise.

While we may have an intellectual grasp of the gospel, we may have an emotional problem about allowing its style to overcome our comfortable prejudices.

The experience of marginalization does not guarantee by itself the overcoming of prejudices that some may associate more commonly with the privileged.

Even so, I had to wrestle with myself to overcome some of the inherited prejudices about leprosy.

A sincere ecumenical dialogue would serve to overcome the «stereotypes, prejudices and conventional ideas» that had been entrenched for decades and, indeed, for centuries.

It must fruit in action to challenge and overcome the evils of society with its poverty, ignorance and disease, its wars and destructive conflicts, its prejudice, oppression, chicanery and quest for profit and power, its insensitivity to the deep needs of persons.

We who are married can help to overcome sexism, the prejudice and discrimination against women most obviously, but also against men, which blocks human becoming on a massive scale.

If we are to submit to Wilken's prescription, we must first overcome certain prejudices.

Any female minister must overcome a tremendous prejudice.

You can't expect to overcome centuries of prejudice.

Jerry Levias, the Oilers» star wide receiver, has been overcoming one prejudice or another ever since he was a 116 - pound defensive back

How does prejudice develop, and how can we overcome it?

Set in California during the Vietnam War, this evocative novel is a moving portrait of a young man trying to overcome the limits set for him by prejudice and poverty.

Fatima, I agree with what you are saying and I do think anti-Muslim prejudice has become the biggest prejudice, perhaps overcoming racism and sexism (although it includes elements of both).

She was a pioneer in a political world which sadly still harbours prejudices against women but which we are continually overcoming, not least thanks to her example.

Honeyball argues persuasively that these early Labour women saw themselves as socialists first and feminists second, and skilfully describes the enormous prejudice they overcame, on both counts.

Whereas, Dr. King confronted unprecedented challenges with the knowledge and belief that, as one people united in principle and purpose, «we shall overcome» all prejudice, hate, and intolerance; his legacy lives on through the civil rights victories won during his lifetime, as well as those won in the decades since;

Unconscious bias training is increasingly used by major corporations to help executives overcome the innate prejudices that mean they often overlook promising women and candidates from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Such labels can lead to prejudice and be hard to overcome.

After Barrack Obama overcame any racial prejudice to become the President of The United States and did a stellar job, the world collectively downed their proverbial arms against the blacks.

PRESS RELEASE - Jan 26 - A study by sociologist Kevin Lewis of the interaction patterns of 126,134 U.S. users of OkCupid.com suggests that racial prejudice can be overcome, but we have a long way to go.

This will not only give you a dignified existence, but also help you overcome societal prejudice.

And the protagonist that overcomes his / her prejudices towards the «other» in the quest for survival.