Sentence examples for commitment to emancipation from inspiring English sources
As Northern critics observed, that failure called into question their reputed commitment to emancipation, which Ford calls "a wish and not a plan, a preference but not a priority".
Cox argued that Lincoln's circumspect and indirect style of leadership--while highly effective in advancing the cause of black freedom--had misled historians about his commitment to emancipation and critical role in achieving it.
Pressure from national women's movements with support internationally and a liberation movement with a stated commitment to women's emancipation helped.
A century before Emma Watson's speech, and the UN's HeForShe campaign, his outward commitment to women's emancipation was exemplary.
Beyond his strong commitment to the cause of female emancipation (late in life, Higginson helped found Radcliffe College), the colonel admired the fiercely strange young woman he only ever met twice — by his choice, not hers.
While acknowledging the role African Americans themselves played in ending slavery, her characteristically meticulous research and careful reading of the sources made a compelling case for Lincoln's pivotal role in emancipation and commitment to civil rights for the former slaves.
Jewish emancipation was tied closely to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, with their commitment to the equality and freedom of human individuals, and the dominant ethical concern of emancipation was not protection for communal autonomy but rather the attainment of equal rights.
"It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule.
Our sorrow and loss are as deep as our commitment to live and work as he tirelessly did for humanity's struggle for emancipation.
The commitment to organise and maintain a political Labour party in parliament and in the country, as well as promoting the "political, social and economic emancipation of the people" were among other clauses in the text.
