Sentence examples for spiritual protest from inspiring English sources
(Anderson Hal Willnerr's Freedom Rides (Thursday) Mr. Willner, the record and television producer whose résumé spans Allen Ginsberg to "Saturday Night Live," revisits classic spiritual protest fare with this 50th anniversary tribute to the Freedom Rides, the civil rights campaign that helped integrate bus systems and the South.
Several different progressive Christian religious denominations, as well as the Jewish Voice for Peace, have demonstrated their solidarity with this movement, which at its core, is a prayerful and spiritual protest. .
Besides being a local chief, Clementina is national coordinator of the September 22 spiritual protest movement, named for the date in 1962 when their prophet, a woman named Besiko, had a vision that exhorts them to leave behind the modern materialist lifestyle and to protect the Earth and their cultural traditions.
So far, via word of mouth and Facebook, it has attracted thirty musicians, who have played at three marches — mostly New Orleans-style spirituals and protest songs.
In "Soundtrack" they tweak the traditional archives-and-talking-heads format by pausing for music-video-style performances of spirituals and protest songs by contemporary artists including Joss Stone, Wyclef Jean and the Roots.
At some point, a microphone will capture a protest spiritual or a freedom song in Hong Kong.
The Lenca people, for whom the Gualcarque River has an important agricultural and spiritual value, vigorously protested against the project and blocked construction for several years.
Like ancient stories of King Arthur, said sleeping dreamlessly under some hill in Wales, waiting to be summoned in the time of England's greatest need, the protest spirituals and freedom songs are always there.
"It was a really beautiful protest, really spiritual," he says.
At least some of those objecting had personal roots in the civil rights years and an investment in art as a vehicle for racial pride, social protest and spiritual solace.
A1 Beijing Sit-In by Banned Sect Members of the Falun Gong spiritual group held scattered protests on Tiananmen Square on the second anniversary of a big demonstration.
