Sentences with phrase «think slavery»

Does anyone think slavery in America could have been stopped?

Yes, I made a mistake posting that I didn't think slavery happened there but why focus on that?

If you take Democrats out of your sentence it reads «Actually originally «conservatives» were those who were against slavery during the American revolution, so if you think slavery was a good part of history then i guess your right, again irony is a female dog

Actually originally conservatives were Democrats who were against slavery during the American revolution, so if you think slavery was a good part of history then i guess your right, again irony is a female dog

If you're going to say anything you have 2 choices: «God was right and I think slavery is just as groovy» or «God was wrong and instead of instructed how to «appropriately» treat slaves, He should have plainly told everyone slavery was wrong and to release any slaves immediately.»

I guess if you think abortion is morally acceptable, you think slavery is morally acceptable.

When you think slavery you think 1800 American.

As he put it: «Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national territories, and to overrun us here in these free states?

Aristotle thought slavery was natural.

I've yet to meet a Christian that thinks slavery is morally right.

All I got out of this is that Chad thinks slavery is just fine under the right scenarios and that there was no need for the state or a moral authority (like, say, god) to point out that alternate labor scenarios, as practiced in many cultures, might be preferable.

@Saraswati «All I got out of this is that Chad thinks slavery is just fine under the right scenarios and that there was no need for the state or a moral authority»

While he thought slavery was wrong everywhere at all times, his program was to limit the expansion of slavery into the territories.

It promotes genocide, infanticide, genital mutilation, thinks slavery is 100 % A OK.

There were and still are plenty of racist white women out there and there were definitely a lot of white women a couple of hundred years ago who thought slavery was a good thing.

It occurred to me then that, like most people, I had thought slavery was in the past — but there I was, looking into the eyes of a former slave.

Not exact matches

Kanye West, continuing his controversy tour 2018, spoke Tuesday to TMZ Live about slavery, free thought and his love for President Trump.

In 1918, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips published «American Negro Slavery,» which framed slavery as a labor agreement between masters and happy slaves — facile thinking that persistsSlavery,» which framed slavery as a labor agreement between masters and happy slaves — facile thinking that persistsslavery as a labor agreement between masters and happy slaves — facile thinking that persists today.

Genocide, slavery, anti-miscegenation laws, burning of «witches», bombing of abortion clinics, live burials of gay people, etc., etc., all result from fundamentalist thinking.

I think the worlds population is actually benefiting from humanism — slavery is a crime in nearly every corner of the world.

What would the founding fathers thought about slavery — whoops!

Zip — Do you also think people in the South still practice slavery?

One more question: Do you honestly think that God wanted slavery and that he meant for the Israelites to have slaves?

If you think that is wrong then you are at direct odds with your god who condones slavery, a.k.a outlining when it's acceptable and not punishing people who do own slaves.

ME II beat me to it, but it's unbelievable that you are trying to rationalize slavery, regardless the of «type» and this is why we view god as immoral while you still think god can be moral and outline when it's acceptable to own a slave.

I also gather that if God did have any issues with slavery he didn't think it worth spelling out the scenarios under which is was and wasn't all right because, after all, it just wasn't that big a deal.

Well, what did the Bible think of slavery?

The Romans thought themselves quite moral and had no qualms about crushing their enemies and selling survivors into slavery.

You don't think the «elephant in the room» of OUR time is the fact that we awkwardly pretend affirmative action isn't racist; abortion isn't murder; people compare the gay marriage debate to 300 + years of black slavery, oppression, and / or murder; and the major political parties act like Ron Paul doesn't exist?

The Enlightenment, not the Church, led to the thinking that all men were equal, thus slavery was wrong.

They want tax free banks from loans because taxes are considered «slavery» and they think they should be exempt from Australian law.

They condoned slavery, they stoned people to death (if you think that is better than slavery you should read up on it), they fought wars, and committed atrocities.

«All men created equal» yet it took almost 100 years for slavery to be abolished and a lot of those intelligent founding fathers you think so highly of were slave owners.

I think it is relevant that I see Christians DOING more to oppose slavery than I see atheists doing.

Would you think that slavery was being supported by the phrases, «to proclaim release to the captives» and «let the oppressed go free» or rejected?

Now if the Bible could be so wrong about a clear ethical failure of slavery, what makes anyone think it has anything to say about sexual orientation or women's rights?

As late as 1790, after years of otherwise progressive thought and effort in such areas as poverty, unemployment, prisons and slavery, John Wesley could write:

Christian thinking didn't end slavery.

I don't have an issue believing that Abraham and Moses were real - I think your 100 words or less essay is brilliant and written from the perspective of one, like myself, that came OUT from the religious slavery that they were born into.

The Democrats were the ones who were fighting for slavery during the Civil War, which is really no different than today if you think about it.

Not at all like the Religious Extremeists that want to put wpmen back in slavery, taking away her freedoms, viewing gays as sub-human, that can't get past the separation of Church and State, and think that the US was founded on Freedom OF Religion, when, in fact, it was founded on Freedom FROM Religion.

Would a member of a think tank with close ties to the administration have drawn a parallel between corporate taxation and slavery?

When many Americans think of sex slavery, they imagine countries on others sides of the world — not their own neighborhoods.

2) I think you are deeply mistaken about the end of slavery.

Jay responded by ruminating on this clause in the Constitution and confessing sadly that «the word slaves was avoided, probably on account of the existing toleration of slavery, and of its discordancy with the principles of the Revolution; and from a consciousness of its being repugnant to... the Declaration of Independence» (111:298) The number of such revealing glimpses into the thinking of the founders is almost without number.

Our problem is slavery to the present, its fads and fashions, its stereotyped ways of thinking and behaving.

A reader who wishes to know, for instance, why Article 1, section 9, clause 1 prohibited Congress from making any alteration until 1808 in «the Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit» can turn to Volume III and find 28 contemporary documents on slavery and the slave trade.

I have watched my people suffer under slavery for 400 years, and now you think that I am being too violent?!

And just think about this: Current estimates say that about 12 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic for slavery from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

In 1858 he wrote a three sentence summary of his thought «On Slavery and Democracy»: «As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.