Sentences with phrase «struggle for liberation»

Study for the Struggle for Liberation (Study for the Chaotic Stage of the Negro, Past and Present), 1940 study for a mural at the Chicago Public Library tempera on illustration board 16 1/4 x 38 5/8 inches (sheet size), 13 1/4 x 36 inches (sight size), signed and dated

In 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet.

What we need, according to Richard Kahn, Sam Fassbinder and Anthony Nocella, is a critical intervention by visionary educational leaders who are willing to going together with social movements, in order to transfigure the relationship between the school and the society as part of a larger struggle for liberation.

Concerning Violence / Sweden, U.S.A., Denmark, Finland (Director: Göran Hugo Olsson)-- Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

The last time Charles Burnett was on the film promotion trail was in 2007 when «Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation» premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

«Fifty five years ago, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was formed to spearhead the struggle for liberation and de-colonisation of our continent.

«Furthermore, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has said it a long time ago that his only focus is to restore Biafra and nothing else, anybody who is trying to bring restructuring of Nigeria into the struggle for the liberation of Biafra is doing that to his or her own detriment.

Parts of the statement read thus: «As we get prepared for the challenges ahead 2017, We make bold to tell the people of our Niger Delta, sane minds in Nigeria and the comity of nations that the remaining 11 months and couples of weeks in 2017 will be filled with surprises and a reconfiguration of the struggle for the liberation of our motherland.

All men have the need and the obligation to participate not only in the struggle for the liberation of man from all forms of oppression, exploitation and ignorance, but also in the positive effort to master all wisdom and power in love so that all may attain to the fullness of the liberty of the children of God.28

With Theodore Walker, we are encouraged to see that the struggle against oppression is a constant struggle for liberation.

God, according to Henry Young, is the ground of freedom and the source of empowerment in black people's struggle for liberation.

According to Yehezkel Landau, a religious peace activist, the conflict over the land of Israel - Palestine will be resolved only when each side recognizes the other «as a potential sibling and partner» in the struggle for liberation.

However oppressive the Arab people find the Jewish hegemony in Israel, we can not immediately support their struggle for liberation without considering the consequences that would follow from its success.

There has been a contribution of Muslims and other non-Christians in the struggle for liberation.

Redemption happens where the struggle for liberation is.

The struggle for the liberation of Hispanic women is being carried out in many different ways by many different mujeristas all around the U.S. Mujerista theology is one of the voices of such a struggle — a struggle that is life for us because we have learned from our grandmothers and mothers that la vida es la lucha.

God insures humanity continued participation in the struggle for liberation.

This connection — between the experience of the burning bush, the struggle for liberation, and the glimpses of a promised land — sheds light on Jesus» stark claims.

To be free of ideological captivity is to «join the community of struggle,» to oppose racism and sexism, to fight for human rights and women's ordination, to engage in social action, to envision «holiness as justice,» and to develop nonsexist language and imagery in order to «empower» and free the congregation to engage in the «struggle for liberation.»

To choose organized religion as a site of struggle for liberation presupposes a sense of ecclesial ownership as well as repentance of complicity with patriarchal religion.

But, again, according to the Exodus account, this is done for the sake of contributing, in the long run, to the struggle for liberation.

In order for his appeal to be successful Douglass knew he would have to reconcile a certain pious regard for the well - being of slave owners with supporting the slaves» struggle for liberation.

The late Howard Thurman once described the necessary aspect of the struggle for liberation by using an analogy from nature.7 Thurman recalled that on one occasion during his childhood in Daytona Beach, he happened upon a tiny green snake crawling along a dirt path.

If God is conceived so as not to favor our struggle for liberation, then God is thereby conceived so as not to experience fully our pain and suffering.

Thus Vincent Harding, Kwame Ture, Winnie Mandela, and many others have spoken in accordance with the philosophy of black power in maintaining that where there is oppression, there will also be some form of protest and struggle for liberation.

Ture says that no matter how overwhelming the might of the oppressor, it is in the very nature of the people that they will struggle and struggle and struggle for as long as they are oppressed until at last they achieve their liberation.6 Vincent Harding's history — There is a River — emphasizes the inevitability of the African - American struggle for liberation.

It is characteristic of black theology to be unforgivingly critical of any theology which fails to affirm that God favors the struggle for liberation.

The necessity of struggle against oppression can also be described through the use of neoclassical resources.8 According to such resources, it is inevitable that the oppressed will struggle for liberation.

In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberation.

Because we know that God actually experiences our oppression, we know that God favors our struggle for liberation.

The whole point of Thoreau's parable — indeed, of all his writings, including Walden, Civil Disobedience and his famous Plea for Captain John Brown — is to declare that the revolution of 1776 is not yet over; the people and the land we love still struggle for liberation.

Is it not the analogy between the human struggle for liberation and nature's struggle to be free?

The most powerful tools available to us for teaching the ethic of eco-justice are these stories built upon the analogy between human oppression and nature's oppression, between the human struggle for liberation and nature's struggle for fulfillment.

For female theologians from Africa, Asia and Latin America, Jesus, besides identifying with the poor, is a model of true humanity who can inspire others to struggle for liberation.

This pathos or suffering or pain is prior to their involvement in any activist struggle for liberation.

There, Christians must involve themselves in the struggle for liberation in the economic and political arena and ally themselves with others in that struggle.

, the rich must find their salvation and escape from the judgment to come by giving up their wealth (which they or their parents acquired by robbing the poor) and joining the struggle for liberation.

Melbourne focused on the identification of Christianity with the poor and marginalized of the world in their struggle for liberation and justice.

In many respects Bonhoeffer's main contribution in South Africa has been his challenge to those of us there who are socially privileged and academically trained, as he was, and therefore numbered among an elite minority — even if we have sought to be in solidarity with those who struggled for liberation and attempted to identify with the victims of apartheid.

Christians, struggling for liberation and against poverty, develop the political dimension of Christian faith.

Currently the most influential version, of course, is associated with movements shaped by liberation theologies: We come to understand God as we are a part of a community that is united by a common history of oppression and struggles for liberation by radically changing the arrangements of economic and social power that have made the oppression systemic in our society.

In the 20th it can be traced through the rich history of the anti-colonial struggles for liberation from Africa to Asia, Vietnam and Algeria to Palestine.

«I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.

Not exact matches

As such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies what he affirms as fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppressed.

Unless we participate in the struggle of the poor for their liberation, we can understand nothing about Jesus Christ....

Surely the liberal christian communities would come to see the rightness of the theologies of liberation being generated globally by christians and others struggling for bread and dignity.

«It was the Dominicans... on the island of Hispañola in 1511,» concludes historian Enrique Dussel, «who began the struggle for justice and liberation in Latin America.»

Yet in doing so they are left with no foundation for moral knowledge, and must get by with notions of liberation, struggle, and propaganda.

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.