Sentences with phrase «pacifist stance»

The textual body of the exhibition also leaves untroubled the narrative of the Black Power Movement's reaction to King's pacifist stance in the face of violence.

As the threat from Nazi Germany increased, in the late 1930s the Labour Party gradually abandoned its pacifist stance and came to support re-armament, largely due to the efforts of Ernest Bevin and Hugh Dalton who by 1937 had also persuaded the party to oppose Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement.

A UM Action fundraising letter from May this year reminded readers that twenty years ago a UMC hymnal committee attempted to drop «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and «Onward, Christian Soldiers» as «too militarist to fit the church's current pacifist stance.»

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It could be that despite his public stance, (1) Obama secretly believes that «war is not the answer» and privately relayed his true pacifist beliefs and commitment to unilateral military withdrawal from Afghanistan only to his «spiritual advisor,» Brian McLaren.

Christianity has both pacifist and nonpacifist theological stances depending on denominations and historical traditions.

At a secret meeting in January 1947, Attlee and six cabinet ministers, including Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, decided to proceed with the development of Britain's nuclear weapons programme, [34] in opposition to the pacifist and anti-nuclear stances of a large element inside the Labour Party.