A universal story about the freedom of the human spirit and
the struggle against slavery and despotism, about love, loss and betrayal.
The phrase is invoked particularly when LGBTQ advocates wish to connect their struggle to
the struggle against slavery in the nineteenth - century or for civil rights in the twentieth.
By 1858
the struggle against slavery appeared lost, yet Lincoln neither despaired nor publicly speculated about whether the Constitution was «legitimate.»
Not exact matches
On this occasion, Douglass was asking «the people of Britain» to join the
struggle against American
slavery.
The Gospel equally calls us to
struggle against any physical, psychic
slavery,
against exploitation and manipulation.
These events coincide with the first international Day of the Girl on Thursday, and they remind us that the global
struggle for gender equality is the paramount moral
struggle of this century, equivalent to the campaigns
against slavery in the 19th century and
against totalitarianism in the 20th century.