Word: abolitionists
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Kansas has a knowing relationship with radicals. A portrait of abolitionist John Brown - gun in one hand, Bible in the other - occupies a place of honor at the state capitol in Topeka. Bar-bashing Carry Nation took her hatchet to some of the best saloons in the state. Wichitans long ago processed the fact that a doctor with a mansion in the suburbs wore not just a gown to work but also a bulletproof vest. They kept it at arm's length, though. Some places, like some people, seem to relish any sort of attention. Not this place...
...Sterling said in an interview. Two of those “who have come before,” Sterling said, were the dinner’s eponyms: G. Lewis Ruffin, the first black graduate of Harvard Law School, and his wife Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin,an abolitionist and women’s suffragist. “I am excited, honored, but also deeply humbled to receive this award,” Sterling said in the interview. “I think back to the pioneers who have come before me, and realize how much greater this moment...
...much praise gives the general public the impression that scientists are all a bunch of Darwin-worshippers. It’s bad enough that books have just been published with titles like Darwin’s Sacred Cause by Adrian Desmond and James Moore, assessing Darwin’s abolitionist tendencies, or Angels and Ages, by Adam Gopnik, which compares Darwin to Lincoln. Worse, these views are often evangelized in the popular press. Even something as seemingly innocuous as putting a fish on your car with the word “Darwin” written inside it may suggest...
...1960s, Warren M. Robbins, 85, raised $13,000 and took out a mortgage to buy the former home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. House in hand, he established the Museum of African Art with work purchased during his travels abroad...
...Scully argues, the animal movement is broader than this caricature. Modern animal advocacy began as the cause of 19th century Christian reformers combating slavery and child abuse. Indeed, William Wilberforce, the famous abolitionist and co-founder of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is a hero in modern Christian conservative circles...