Sentence examples for sin of slavery from inspiring English sources

"But whatever else the flag may mean to us, it cannot be separated entirely from the shameful sin of slavery".

In the early 19th century, the standard-bearers of African American literature spoke with heightening urgency of the need for whites to address the terrible sin of slavery.

Abraham Lincoln's push for the 13th Amendment, erasing the original sin of slavery from the land, was a liberal moment, as dramatized in Steven Spielberg's new film.

And which religious institution in America sits most directly in moral judgment of this nation's original sin of slavery and all its continuing bigoted manifestations?

It was with a resignation like Claudius's that, in his second Inaugural Address, Lincoln accepted — seemed even to welcome — God's punishment of America for the sin of slavery.

"For not one — not one — of the 215,000 people that I represent in my district is culpable in any way in the sin of slavery.

Earlier this year, television stations began playing an endless video loop of Mr. Wright damning the United States for its sins of slavery and genocide against American Indians.

Of a nation, torn and bloodied, stained with the sins of slavery and segregation, struggling to free itself from a hateful past.

These beliefs, even unconscious, provide a special kind of innocence for "Dreamers," an innocence where the sins of slavery and genocide and plunder will not be visited upon the children, where the poisoned seeds of history don't bear strange and dangerous fruit.

He arrived at the zenith of American political life as a seemingly messianic figure called upon not only to undo the damage wrought by his predecessor, George W. Bush, but somehow to absolve the nation of its original sins of slavery and racism.

"If you don't think that this all goes back to the original sin of fucking slavery — it's as clear as day.