Sentences with phrase «segregation as»

Federally incarcerated persons can be placed in disciplinary segregation as punishment for committing institutional offences.

Guards» unions and prison administrators justify supermax and other forms of administrative segregation as a means to control prison violence and disrupt gang hierarchies.

Gallagher, who now lives between her native New York and Rotterdam, came to prominence during the 1990s, at a time when African - American artists including Glenn Ligon and Kara Walker were dismantling legacies of slavery and segregation as filtered through the channels of US pop - culture and folklore.

That quote from a William Gibson science fiction novel is used widely in Silicon Valley to describe the technology landscape, but it applies to segregation as well.

Enter Generation X, one generation removed from real segregation as Chris Stewart defines as «the state - enforced separation of races and the assignment of minorities into inferior conditions.»

As a result of Supreme Court decisions and legal changes to the enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), state and local governments could be held liable if students with disabilities face unnecessary segregation as they prepare for postschool employment.

One side, backed by rank - and - file teachers and their democratically - elected representatives, sees poverty and segregation as central issues to be addressed though education reform as well as health and housing programs; the other side, backed by wealthy interests, sees poverty as an excuse and unions as the problem.

But like other cities, New Orleans» private, public and charter schools are as much a vehicle for segregation as our residents» attitudes toward black and poor folk.

We talk about segregation as if the state's population centers were homogeneous.

Assuming that racial / ethnic minorities have fewer economic resources than white families, de facto segregation as already exists may become even worse.

The Chief Executive for the Adentan Municipal Assembly, Nii Noi Adumuah, has proposed waste segregation as part of the waste...

A recent court ruling regarding Garden City, Long Island is a pivotal development in the long struggle to dismantle housing segregation as the federal government, courts and advocacy groups shift the battle beyond cities to white suburban enclaves that have deliberately erected barriers to integration.

Plessy v. Ferguson, the case where the Court in 1896 embraced segregation as constitutional, was the ugly, illegitimate stepchild of Dred Scott in 1857.

They expressed the conviction that «the silent public opinion of the South has already marked off segregation as a doomed and dying social arrangement» (June 2, 1954).

The editors added: «A great deal of what might be called the silent public opinion of the south has already marked off segregation as a doomed and dying social arrangement.»

So, you would expect some self - segregation as a result.

In his «I Have a Dream» speech, King argued that our national commitment to equality demanded that we emancipate ourselves from segregation as well as slavery.

Repubs at one point in time nominated an man who openly supported segregation as their presidential candidate..

Not exact matches

As a young African - American child born to a single mother in Chattanooga, Tenn., during segregation, Samuel L. Jackson has had to overcome a lot to get to where he is.

The same argument was used by southern states to defend segregation during the Civil Rights Era, but state's rights factor into issues as diverse as same sex marriage and speed limits.

Here Sotomayor plays the mentor card: «I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self - segregation; take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don't hide within it.»

But, of course, while racial segregation is visible, the segregation of female - owned firms is largely invisible — as most customers are unaware who owns the companies they walk or drive past every day.

For example, Facebook defines hate speech as a direct attack — dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority or calls for exclusion or segregation — on people from protected groups.

As I said, I don't think people are arguing against the site, per se, but against the ideology / philosophy that requires gender segregation.

As in, «Admittedly, William F. Buckley wasn't always right about everything, segregation for example,» or, «Obviously Aaron Sorkin is a colossal misogynist, but let us set that to one side,» or, «I enjoyed John Derbyshire's book on the Riemann Hypothesis, despite his despicable views on race.»

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

The segregation and the hate continues because we can not unlearn what we taught and realize that we are all one human specie, and that we are all meant to be different, as different as our fingerprints and as different as the lines in the palms of our hands...

Historically, unless they could «pass» as white, they were victims of segregation based on that heritage.

... What has happened over time is that people were forced to believe in the one of the Abrahamic faiths through Holy wars, torture, Crusades and Inquisitions, and as people practiced this chosen people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built on the principle of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived and never to marry anyone outside their faith... and even in death there is a history of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish person buried in Jewish cemetery.

The segregation of social conservatism as merely one alternative among several is itself is a bad sign.

* worship God, who has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.

The consequences of mass incarceration are enormous, as are the ongoing realities of neighborhood and school segregation, education inequity, and employment and health care disparities.

Not only that, but as more and more states legalize gay marriage, these churches will find themselves in the position of Bob Jones University, which distinguished itself as a holdout supporter of racial segregation until 2000.

Pointing to such factors as a low minimum wage, the declining number of well - paying manufacturing jobs, and the continuing segregation of jobs by race and sex, they argue that the central issue is the availability and quality of work.

me personally i don't care either way; they deserve the same treatment as any other human in america, just a flashback what if the majority had won out during the whole segregation / voting rights of minorities?

It was also unambiguously pro-American, though as Alyssa Rosenberg pointed out it, had trouble incorporating the WWII - era Army's racial segregation in a satisfying way.

During the Civil Rights era, even though progressive elites such as seminary professors T. B. Matson (1897 - 1988) and J. B. Weatherspoon (1886 - 1964) managed to persuade the denomination to officially endorse Brown v. Board at its 1954 convention, most congregations continued to embrace segregation.

He does not ignore political and economic developments, but he pays special attention to social issues, including, as he says in his preface, «the transformation of gender relations, the regeneration of the home, the disciplining of leisure and pleasure, and the establishment of segregation.»

Hollywood films followed, along with well - known lovers, global tours, monkey and peacock and cheetah pets, work with the Resistance during the war, charges of anti-Americanism and fellow - traveling, stays in Cuba as the personal guest of Castro, opposition to segregation in the United States, and a turn at the microphone at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963.

But to view it as «segregation» is foolish.

«For Judaism to insist rigorously on aloofness, on segregation, on maintaining itself as a self - enclosed community, is to withhold its witness from the general community, proclaimed an editorial of December 20, 1939.

I believe that it is not beyond our reach or our imaginations as a nation to design a national educational trust for African - Americans which will fund the real educational opportunities that form the first rung in the ladder of American mobility, a ladder that segregation and racism made sure was the first thing stolen from African - Americans after Lincoln's death.

For West, the presence of intact, hard - working families and the network of clubs, churches and sports leagues made segregation easier to bear and gave him the education, vision and self - confidence to join the civil rights movement as a young adult.

«7 Bennett gives as examples of middle axioms for our time the need of international collaboration in the United Nations, the maintenance of balance between free enterprise and government control of economic power, the removal of racial segregation in the churches and its progressive elimination in society.8 Provided such middle axioms are taken for what they are, as Christian «next steps» and not as a watered - down version of the full implications of the love commandment, they can be extremely helpful in the quest of a fuller justice as this is actuated by Christian love.

It was also unambiguously pro-American, though as Alyssa Rosenberg pointed out it, had trouble incorporating the WWII - era Army's racial segregation in a satisfying....

If faith communities are serious about strengthening the family as the cornerstone of a virtuous society, they must address the challenges posed by socioeconomic segregation.

At the same time, white and black Methodists began mixing at camp meetings and churches (though with some of the restraint that would later manifest as segregation, leading to the birth of the African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion churches).

Now, while few Christians I know would argue that segregation is moral, I don't know too many who see it as a moral imperative.

Would I have been willing to sacrifice my reputation as a «Bible - believing Christian» by rejecting biblical arguments used to support segregation and oppose civil disobedience?

The romantic element was the belief that even as segregation reinforced itself by fortifying racial resentment, ignorance, and antagonism, integration would promote racial tolerance and harmony, evolving steadily from a government policy into a natural inclination.