Sentences with phrase «protest injustice»

As Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim's artistic director and chief curator, observed so well, American history is full of critical junctures in which artists have come together to protest injustice and craft counter-narratives to the prevailing voices in government.

«At certain critical junctures in American history, artists have come together to protest injustice and craft counter-narratives to the prevailing voices in government,» wrote Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim's artistic director and chief curator, characterizing the artists» posters as the latest in a long line of protest art, stretching back through the AIDS Crisis, demonstrations against the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement.

Cleopatra regarded pickles as a beauty enhancer, Lincoln was fond of apples in pandowdy, and Gandhi used fasting to protest injustice.

Would you be willing to go to prison to protest injustice or to promote a cause you think important?

It seems okay for those who protest injustice to avoid punishment (in legal ways) if they can, to defend themselves assiduously, to hire lawyers, to take the easy way out as Thoreau did, or to argue that they should be spared punishment entirely, as Socrates did.

Ford's intent as a filmmaker isn't just to expose and protest the injustice of his brother's murder.

2018-04-08 15:41 Who would have thought that Colin Kaepernick's gesture of taking a knee would start a woke movement to protest injustice (and not the flag as many people Actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, stars of the popular sci - fi series The X-Files, took a knee in protest while on the set of their show this week

Who would have thought that Colin Kaepernick's gesture of taking a knee would start a woke movement to protest injustice (and not the flag as many people I've added photos of Gillian at The Crown TV series premiere in London last night, enjoy viewing the photos!

Individual obstetricians and their professional organizations should protest the injustice, describe the health and financial costs of the current consent process, and prevail on government health care officials to change the regulations.

During the last ward congress, our members were disenfranchised and those who tried to protest the injustice were brutalised by the leadership of the party in the state.

Most Jews who protest injustice are in exile, looking for a spirituality and a leadership that is wanting in their birth community.

Their whole attitude and behavior changed; they became strongly motivated both to protest injustice and to make something of their lives and their community.

Ministers marched in the streets protesting injustices in housing, inadequacy of education, and then the immorality of the Vietnam war.

It does indeed: Whitehead is very much the Anglican who has a duty to «the State» or «the nation» which in time of danger such as war leads him to condemn Russell's «heedlessness» in protesting injustice to conscientious objectors.

The Catholic Bishop of Kafanchan, Rev. Dr. Joseph Danlami Bagobiri, has frowned at the position of the Southern Kaduna representatives who are not protesting the injustices...

The members of the National Society of Film Critics add their voices to those of the many other individuals and organizations who have protested this injustice.

It is wonderful to hear that the SGC and community are actively protesting this injustice.

The camp sparked my interest in politics, and I organized rallies throughout my childhood and teenage years to protest injustices large and small.

Not exact matches

Reid was one of the first NFL players to join Kaepernick in kneeling during the national anthem to protest social injustice.

Just think of a meek and agreeable mother becoming fierce when a hospital bureaucrat gets in the way of care for her sick child, or an introvert moved to protest and organize by some injustice in the world.

For six days, more than 200 union workers and their families camped out here to protest what they considered an egregious injustice.

«But this is a protest that addresses injustices not only happening here in St. Louis but around the country.»

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick originated the gesture as a protest against racial injustice; as #TakeAKnee has spread that message has been somewhat lost amidst the resulting recrimination.

And complex problems and injustices that induce massive protests can not be solved with a simple Pepsi.

A symbolic, non-violent violation of the law, done deliberately in protest against some form of perceived injustice.

But others will come forward with their long list of injustices that must be protested: the poor, the street people, the mentally ill, environmental abuse, substandard housing, unemployment, corruption on Wall Street, the absence of peace in the Middle East, and on, and on, and on.

Human beings can do amazing things — like peacefully protest a racial injustice — but they always seem to leave a reminder that they are not perfect.

«The atheism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is — in its origins and aims — a type of moralism: a protest against the injustices of the world and of world history.

To me it's like saying «if you must call yourself a Protestant then understand that true Protestantism is protesting at injustice, not reading Calvin's Institutes».

They say the children are being given a chance to sing out their sorrow and anger, while also learning at an early age to protest against injustice.

In the course of her research into adolescent spiritual development, Almeda Wright has heard numerous stories and testimonies from young African Americans experimenting with new ways of relating spirituality to their protests against racial injustice.

Both Scripture and Christian tradition remind us that faithful prophetic protest is crucial to confronting injustice, speaking truth to power, and advocating for and standing with the marginalized.

To hear the voices protesting the structural injustices of the current economic system; 2.

Civil Rights activist flooded this state under the leadership of Robert Moses in order to protest voting injustice in the state of Mississippi.

What constitutes legitimate protection of a child and what are the obligations of a family to protest against an injustice in school segregation, for example, and to open the way for better public education?

Martin Luther King and his followers engaged in open protest against clear instances of social injustice, and they did not share Booker T. Washington's aversion to civil rights agitation; quite the contrary.

It seems indifferent to the radical distinction between conventional religion — which throws the aura of sanctity on contemporary public policy, whether morally inferior or outrageously unjust — and radical religious protest — which subjects all historical reality (including economic, social and radical injustice) to the «word of the Lord,» i.e., absolute standards of justice.

As a powerful voice for protest that appeals to disenfranchised people, Islam thrives in an environment of social injustice.

As the three athletes prepared for the medal ceremony, Smith and Carlos wanted to use this opportunity to protest issues of systemic injustice in the United States in three distinct ways.

Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s, when I joined protests against racial injustice and marched against the Vietnam war.

Not remembered as the greatest 200m final in Olympic memory (that accolade probably goes to Michael Johnson and his world record time of 19.32 at the Atlanta Games or Usain Bolt at 2016 Rio Olympics), this moment would be remembered for the events after the race: three athletes» protest against the violence, subjugation and oppression of racial injustice.

Moreover, every protest against injustice is far more meaningful when the person making it is willing to sign his or her name to it.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Eric Reid not only believes that kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice is the right thing for some players to do — but it's...

And I don't think the couple withheld part of the money as a protest against injustice, because Peter told them that giving their money was not a requirement, even after they sold their property.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Eric Reid not only believes that kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice is the right thing for some players to do — but it's also the Christian thing to do.

The protests were started by (now - free agent) quarterback Colin Kaepernick to raise awareness about racial injustice and to protest police brutality.

A minority church is a church in a stronger position to protest establishment injustice.

A community change agency is any group, organization, or task force that has arisen anywhere in the area to redress a wrong, attack an injustice, heal a hurt, remedy a lack, stop an aggression, protest a practice, demonstrate a need.

On August 26, before a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, the 49er's quarterback sat down during the national anthem in protest against racial injustices in America.

«It seems so timely right now as we have these conversations about the football players kneeling during the anthem at the NFL games, led by Colin Kaepernick and the controversy that's arisen around it,» he says, referencing the demonstrations by dozens of NFL players protesting racial injustice and police brutality.