Sentences with phrase «struggle against racism»

In order to establish November 8th as Viola Desmond Day in Nova Scotia in order to honour her struggle against racism in Nova Scotia.

Core of her theoretic, artistic and activist practice is concept of the permanent struggle against racism, misogyny, xenophobia, social injustice and hatred, on all fronts.

Theologian James Cone, who as a founder of black liberation theology linked Christian faith with the struggle against racism and oppression, died April 28, 2018.

Toni Morrison «s view of motherhood as reflected in her literary works is one of motherhood as a profound act of social and political resistance in the struggle against both racism and the oppression of women.

It was about how the discipline of theology had been defined so as to exclude any engagement with the African - American struggle against racism.

The violent struggle against racism — at first against Hitler's racism — has caused the development of racism throughout the world.

Many Christians find Bonhoeffer's witness helpful in their own struggles against racism and poverty, or in efforts to engage in Jewish - Christian dialogue, especially about the Holocaust.

Forgetfulness may help soothe a guilty conscience, but it doesn't resolve my conflicted identities, and it ultimately doesn't help the ongoing struggles against racism, within and outside the Church.

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The psychic energy of contemporary pastors, theologians and church leaders has more often centered on the kerygmatic Word as it encounters «the problem of history,» on struggles against the idolatries of fascism and Stalinism abroad and racism, classism and sexism at home, or on the development of the professional skills of ministry.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

Bearden is important because it happened to be the geographical context in which the ugliness of racism was clearly revealed to me, and I knew that I had to struggle against it.

A sales executive struggles against alcoholism, a cancer victim against despair, a redneck against racism.

She speaks of a feminist critical hermeneutics deriving its truth «not only from biblical writings but also from contemporary struggle of women against racism, sexism and poverty as oppressive systems of patriarchy».21

A great many of our fellow citizens see demands for homosexual marriage as just one more step in the democratic struggle against injustice and discrimination, a continuation of the fight against racism.

It must therefore itself remain organised and resist any pressure to dissolve into the soft left, because its support is vital to people fighting imperialism, black people fighting racism, women protesting against the assault on the welfare state, workers on strike and every other progressive struggle.

We've also worked together on front - line campaigns, including living wage campaigns, pipeline protests, and struggles against police brutality, environmental racism, coal trains and fracking towers.

Rosa's personal struggle against institutionalized racism reaches its zenith on the night of December 1, 1955, when, bone - weary after a long day's work as a seamstress at a Montgomery department store, she refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man — and is promptly arrested.

Released at the height of the African - American struggle against Jim Crow segregation, the book played a pivotal role in raising the country's awareness of racism while simultaneously serving to shame the South about its disgraceful legacy of lynching, oppression and discrimination.

In this third lesson students analyze the film within an historical context of lynching and the early struggles against Jim Crow and racism.