Sentences with phrase «struggle against slavery»

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.»

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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.
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