Sentences with phrase «slaves did»

Slaves didn't have birthday parties like the white children of Master or the white folk that either worked for Master or lived on the larder of his home.

Not having the happy ending was a wise decision on the author's part, because it would have undercut his overall message, and it would have seemed contrived: While we know slaves did escape to safety in the 19th century, his novel is a commentary on the present, where there is no such «happy ending» of perfect safety and freedom, even for black people who achieve.

Their desire for that is really what drives Django and in fact, many slaves did try to escape, continually, which is why there was an economy around slave hunters.

In Biblical times, ordinary women hardly had more rights than slaves did.

His position was that slaves did have constitutional rights that must be respected, «not grudgingly, but fully and fairly.»

and a slave does not abide in the house forever.

free people do not need salvation, slaves do

Free people do not need a savior, slaves do.

and the fact that some Christians still owned slaves does NOT negate that.

Why people felt the need to and were permitted to have slaves I do not pretend to know.

being a slave does not mean you are God's elect.

Eventually the Church moved to the forefront of abolition because we understood this truth: Just because the Bible contained instructions about how to treat slaves in a context and culture where it was acceptable to hold slaves does not mean slavery is a godly practice or part of God's intended purpose for creation.)

21:7 - 8) «If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do» [God] Notice that God doesn't oppose this at all.

«One must not suppose these slaves do not exercise their reason» observed Andrews, despite the extreme frustration he felt in his struggle to teach the Pulayas.43 Notwithstanding the limitations in the explicit communication of the Christian message, certain ideas appear to have made a stronger appeal to the Pulayas than to anyone else.

The part about it being OK to beat your slave as long as the slave does not die right away?

I still persist that it clearly states that if a master beats a slave badly and the slave does not die immediately but hangs on for a day or two before dying, the master is held blameless.

jbhollen «the slave does not die immediately but hangs on for a day or two before dying, the master is held blameless» = > nowhere does it say or imply «blameless», the verse is continuation of the thought concerning compensation for loss when someone is injured by your actions.

When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

Joh 8:35 «The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever.

A «master» can never treat a slave well, the slave does not have the right to say yes or no.

Voting for Moonlight or Spotlight or 12 Years a Slave did that.

12 Years a Slave did it three years ago via punishing violence and bravura performances; a year later Gravity achieved unparalleled visual grandeur films two years on are still trying to match.

However, the consensus and the number of categories topped by Slave don't quite reflect the intense competition behind the scenes.

So when Moonlight won three Oscars last year, or when 12 Years a Slave did the same in 2014, those weren't modern outliers, but rather fell squarely into the historical context for Best Picture winners.

Even when frontrunners win, as 2013's 12 Years a Slave did, it's after a long, long campaign that very nearly ends in a loss.

What 12 Years a Slave did for plantation life, this haunting drama does for a farming community still mired in hate and fear.

How many energy slaves does a typical Canadian have at his or her disposal?

Not exact matches

It's certainly a lot closer to driving the change Victoria's Secret claims it wants to see, instead of what it's doing now which is maintaining the structure that actually keeps people poor — and kids slaving away in cotton fields.

Ever get butterflies before you're about to do a presentation or reveal that project you've been slaving over?

She bristled at the term, suggesting that it diminishes the back - breaking work that slaves were forced to do.

Don't become a slave to the numbers.

They feel like we all do but they are not slaves to their emotions,» agrees Butevics.

Despite the talky legal proceedings taking up most of the movie's final hour, that doesn't take away from the fact that the slave revolt that opens the movie is one of the most intense and powerful scenes Spielberg has ever created.

They become slaves to success and before realizing it, they'll do anything to stay on top, things they would never have imagined.

We were slaves to the facts as a structure, but you do fictionalize conversation within that.

But what a lot of people don't consider is that we have watched our own mothers and fathers work their entire lives, slaving away for the American dream, only to obtain the house with the picket fence and still be unhappy.

After slaving over the piece, you find out that the publication doesn't want the piece after all.

Fact: If you don't make the time you will be a slave to your business forever.

And yes, it is possible to get stuff done without ever feeling like you're slaving away, Morehouse claims.

It is about building long - term wealth and financial independence so you can join a small, growing group of people who want to live the life they want without slaving countless hours on work they don't care about.

I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves,» Tubman didn't say,...

Long term, how are we going to do being slaves to oil and gas suppliers, be they Canadian, or Russian or Middle Eastern or what have you.

As for the conditions of Chinese workers etc that some have blamed on multinationals like Apple (and thus by proxy on Jobs), I thank my lucky stars I was born in the West and not in China, but does anybody really believe they were better off slaving in a rice field for 12 hours a day under hardline communism?

Royal debt jubilees thus freed society from debt bondage, but did not liberate slaves.

and you don't eat shellfish, allow women to have short hair, have multiple wives, own slaves, yadda yadda if we did all the stuff YOUR book calls for....

I don't know how else to take that other than it's okay to beat your slaves as long as you don't kill them.

Did he show how to treat slaves?

It doens» t sound strange to me at all, I too can think for myself... because I was a believer in God long before I read His book, the difference is I acknowledge that I am not in control of this life, I can choose to either be a slave to sin or a slave to God, either way I am a slave just as you are, but I choose to be a slave to my God who created me, who or what do you choose to be a slave to?

Fred, how do you explain the fact that there is not a single shred of evidence outside of the bible that the Jewish people were ever slaves in Egypt?

Wrong... Mormons» didn't have slaves and because they voted as a block and were antislavery they were forced out of their homes.