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| x Women's rights |
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Women's suffrage | Guru Nanak Dev |
The term women's rights refers to freedoms and entitlements of women and girls of all ages. These rights may or may not be institutionalized, ignored or suppressed by law, local custom, and behavior in a particular society. These liberties are...
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| Reproductive rights | Sor Juana | ||||
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| x Women's suffrage |
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Women's rights | Emmeline Pankhurst |
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote, and historically includes the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage to women. The movement's modern origins lie in France in the 18th century. Of currently existing...
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| Sylvia Pankhurst | |||||
| Christabel Pankhurst | |||||
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| x Reproductive rights | Women's rights | Birth control | Bella Abzug |
Reproductive rights are a series of legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health. The World Health Organisation defines reproductive rights as follows:
"Reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of...
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| Pro-choice | Bill Baird | ||||
| Balfour Brickner | |||||
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| x Birth control |
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Reproductive rights | Stephen Fleck |
Birth control is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, sexual practices, or medications followed in order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of pregnancy or childbirth. There are three main routes to preventing or ending pregnancy...
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| Alan Guttmacher | |||||
| Charles Knowlton | |||||
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| x Pro-choice |
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Reproductive rights |
Pro-choice describes the political and ethical view that a woman should have complete control over her fertility and the choice to continue or terminate a pregnancy. This entails the guarantee of reproductive rights, which includes access to sexual...
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| x Apartheid | Fidel Castro | ||||
| Graham Charles Chadwick | |||||
| Brian Cleeve | |||||
| Diana Collins | |||||
| Canon John Collins | |||||
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| x Sustainability |
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Michael Phillip Austin |
Sustainability, in a broad sense, is the capacity to endure. In ecology, the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. For humans it is the potential for long-term maintenance of wellbeing, which in turn depends...
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| x Environmentalism |
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Climate change | Nancy Allen |
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the state of the environment. Environmentalism and environmental concerns are often represented with the color green....
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| Oral Ataniyazova | |||||
| Wang Canfa | |||||
| Pisit Charnsnoh | |||||
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| x Human rights |
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Children's rights | Fuziyah al-Ouni |
Human rights are "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Examples of rights and freedoms which have come to be commonly thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty,...
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| Erkin Alptekin | |||||
| Ali Alyami | |||||
| Souleymane Guengueng | |||||
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| x Climate change |
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Environmentalism | Green energy | Al Gore |
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. It can be a change in the average weather or a change in the distribution of weather events around an average ...
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| x Free software |
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Eric S. Raymond |
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal...
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| Richard Stallman | |||||
| x Open content | Derrick Ashong |
Open content, a neologism coined by analogy with "open source", describes any kind of creative work, or content, published in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed...
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| Ken Freedman | |||||
| Lawrence Lessig | |||||
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| x Open standard | Eric S. Raymond |
An open standard is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it, and may also have various properties of how it was designed (e.g. open process).
The terms "open" and "standard" have a wide range of...
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| x LGBT rights |
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Transgender rights | Rodney Croome |
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements share inter-related goals of social acceptance of sexuality and gender minorities. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies have a long history of campaigning for...
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| Same-sex marriage | Desislava Petrova | ||||
| Lesbian rights | Volker Beck | ||||
| Magnus Hirschfeld | |||||
| Karl Heinrich Ulrichs | |||||
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| x Temperance |
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Moses Alexander |
Temperance (Sophrosyne in Greek) is the practice of moderation. It was one of the four "cardinal" virtues held to be vital to society in Hellenic culture. It is one of the Four Cardinal Virtues considered central to Christian behaviour by the...
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| x Freedom of speech |
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Civil liberties | Floyd Abrams |
Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak without censorship or limitation. The synonymous term freedom of expression is sometimes used to indicate not only freedom of verbal speech but any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or...
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| Guy Aldred | |||||
| Roy W Brown | |||||
| Zechariah Chafee | |||||
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| x Civil liberties |
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Freedom of speech |
Civil liberties are rights in Freedom that protect an individual from the government of the nation in which they reside. Civil liberties set limits on government so that its members cannot abuse their power and interfere unduly with the lives of...
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| x Nonviolence |
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Ralph Abernathy |
Nonviolence is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of violence. As such, nonviolence is an alternative to passive acceptance of oppression and armed struggle against it. Practitioners of nonviolence may use diverse...
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| Jane Addams | |||||
| Corazon Aquino | |||||
| Nafez Assaily | |||||
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| x Anti-racism | May Ayim |
Anti-racism includes beliefs, actions, movements, and policies adopted or developed to oppose racism. In general, anti-racism is intended to promote an egalitarian society in which people do not face discrimination on the basis of their race,...
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| Marilyn Buck | |||||
| Juliette Derricotte | |||||
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| x Consumer rights | Katherine Albrecht | ||||
| Joe Carcione | |||||
| Joan Claybrook | |||||
| Phil Edmonston | |||||
| Betty Furness | |||||
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| x Children's rights |
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Human rights | Jane Addams |
Children's rights are the perceived human rights of children with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to the young, including their right to association with both biological parents, human identity as well as...
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| Sharon Sayles Belton | |||||
| Edward des Clayes | |||||
| Shirin Ebadi | |||||
| Marian Wright Edelman | |||||
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| x Civil rights |
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Jessie Daniel Ames |
Civil and political rights are a class of rights and freedoms that protect individuals from unwarranted government action and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression....
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| Ansar Burney | |||||
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| Arudou Debito | |||||
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| x Veterans' rights | Greg Ball | ||||
| Major Michael Donnelly | |||||
| Tod Ensign | |||||
| Norbert Basil MacLean III | |||||
| x Labor rights | Iorwith Wilbur Abel |
Labor rights or workers' rights are a group of legal rights and claimed human rights having to do with labor relations between workers and their employers, usually obtained under labor and employment law. In general, these rights' debates have to do...
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| Gregg Andrews | |||||
| Lupe Anguiano | |||||
| Trace Armstrong | |||||
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| x Fathers' rights | Nicola De Martino |
The fathers' rights movement is a movement whose members are primarily interested in issues related to family law, including child custody and child support that affect fathers and their children. Many of its members are fathers who desire to share...
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| Warren Farrell | |||||
| Bob Geldof | |||||
| Glenn Sacks | |||||
| John Waters | |||||
| x Holocaust denial |
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Mohammed Mahdi Akef |
Holocaust denial is the claim that the genocide of Jews during World War II—usually referred to as the Holocaust—did not occur at all, or that it did not happen in the manner or to the extent historically recognized. Key elements of this claim are...
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| Gaston-Armand Amaudruz | |||||
| Austin App | |||||
| Harry Elmer Barnes | |||||
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| x Cannabis |
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Paul Armentano |
Cannabis, known as marijuana, marihuana, and ganja (from Sanskrit: गांजा gañjā, meaning "hemp"), among many other names refers to any number of preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug. The most common form of...
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| Dana Beal | |||||
| Alun Buffry | |||||
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| x Animal rights |
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Cleveland Amory |
Animal rights, also referred to as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of humans. Advocates approach the issue from different philosophical...
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| Pamela Anderson | |||||
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| x Transgender rights | LGBT rights | Mercedes Allen | |||
| Mara Keisling | |||||
| Pauline Park | |||||
| Susan Ashley Stanton | |||||
| x Same-sex marriage |
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LGBT rights |
Same-sex marriage (also called gay marriage) is a legally or socially recognized marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or social gender.
Same-sex marriage is a civil rights, political, social, moral, and/or religious issue in many...
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| x Anti-globalization | Vittorio Agnoletto |
Criticism of globalization is skepticism of the claimed benefits of the globalization of capitalism. Many of these views are held by the anti-globalization movement however other groups also are critical of the policies of globalization.
Claus...
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| Maude Barlow | |||||
| Medea Benjamin | |||||
| Jello Biafra | |||||
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| x Anti-capitalism |
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Anti-capitalism describes a wide variety of movements, ideas, and attitudes which oppose capitalism. Anti-capitalists, in the strict sense of the word, are those who wish to completely replace capitalism with another system.
However, there are also...
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| x Prison abolition movement | Angela Davis |
The prison abolition movement seeks to abolish prison and the prison system which advocates of the movement view as inhumane. Prison abolitionists present a broad critique of the modern Western criminal justice system, alleged to be both racist and...
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| x Green energy |
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Climate change |
Green energy is the term used to describe sources of energy that are considered to be environmentally friendly and non-polluting, such as geothermal, wind, solar, and hydro. Sometimes nuclear power is also considered a green energy source. Green...
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| x Pollution |
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Green energy |
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms . Pollution can take the form of chemical substances, or energy, such...
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| x Anti-war |
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Bill Ayers |
The term anti-war usually refers to the opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of...
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| Hillary Rodham Clinton | |||||
| x Opposition to the Death Penalty | Steve Earle | ||||
| x Social justice |
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Steve Earle |
Social justice is the concept of a society with a greater degree of economic egalitarianism through progressive taxation, income redistribution, or even property redistribution, policies aimed toward achieving that which developmental economists...
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| Michael Pfleger | |||||
| x Refractive surgery | Ron Link |
Refractive eye surgery is any eye surgery used to improve the refractive state of the eye and decrease or eliminate dependency on glasses or contact lenses. This can include various methods of surgical remodeling of the cornea or cataract surgery....
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| x Lesbian rights | LGBT rights | ||||
| x LGBT rights opposition |
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LGBT rights opposition refers to various movements or attitudes which oppose the extension of certain rights and privileges that are often taken for granted by many heterosexuals to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Such opposition can...
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| x Cambodian Incursion |
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The Cambodian Campaign (also known as the Cambodian Incursion) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during mid-1970 by the United States (U.S.) and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) during the Vietnam War. A total...
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| x Draft lottery |
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On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States held a lottery to determine the order of draft (induction) into the Army for the Vietnam War.
The days of the year, represented by the numbers from 1 to 366 (including Leap Year...
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| x Zionism |
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Heinrich Loewe |
Zionism is the international political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. The area was the Jewish Biblical homeland, called the Land of Israel (Hebrew: Eretz Yisra'el). Since the...
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| Chaim Weizmann | |||||
| David Wolffsohn | |||||
| Nachman Syrkin | |||||
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| x Pro-life |
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Kim Alexis |
The pro-life movement is a political and social movement focused chiefly around opposition to abortion, and especially support for the criminalization of abortion. Those involved in the movement generally maintain that human fetuses and embryos are...
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| x Inclusion | Clay Aiken |
Inclusion is a term used by people with disabilities and other disability rights advocates for the idea that all people should freely, openly and without pity accommodate any person with a disability without restrictions or limitations of any kind....
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| x Poverty |
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Ralph Greene |
Poverty is the condition of lacking basic human needs such as nutrition, clean water, health care, clothing, and shelter because of the inability to afford them. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. Relative poverty is the...
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| x Prison reform | Ralph Greene |
Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, aiming at a more effective penal system.
A precise definition refers to attempts to change the penal system, typically from one model of penology to another. Reverting to an earlier...
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| x AIDS |
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Christine Maggiore |
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system...
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| x Leukemia |
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Matthew Smith |
Leukemia (British English: leukaemia) (Greek leukos λευκός, "white"; aima αίμα, "blood") is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation (production by multiplication) of blood cells, usually white blood...
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| x Anti-Semitism |
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Nazism | Hal Turner |
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their ethnic background, culture, or religion. While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is...
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| x Anti-communism |
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Nazism |
Anti-communism is opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed in reaction to the rise of communism, especially after the October Revolution brought Lenin and Stalin to power in Russia in 1917. Intellectuals from many schools of...
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| x Peace |
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John Lennon |
Peace (symbol: ☮) is commonly understood as the absence of hostility, or the existence of healthy or newly-healed interpersonal or international relationships, safety in matters of social or economic welfare, the acknowledgment of equality and...
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| x Faith | Jesus Christ |
Faith is the confident belief or trust in the truth or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. The word "faith" can refer to a religion itself or to religion in general. As with "trust", faith involves a concept of future events or outcomes,...
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| x Autism rights movement |
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Amanda Baggs |
The autism rights movement (ARM) (also neurodiversity movement or anti-cure movement or autistic culture movement) is a social movement that encourages autistic people, their caregivers and society to adopt a position of neurodiversity, accepting...
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| x anti-whaling | Mimi Macpherson | ||||
| x Anti-Americanism |
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Anti-Americanism, often anti-American sentiment, is opposition or hostility to the people or the government policies of the United States. In practice, a broad range of attitudes and actions critical of or opposed to the United States have been...
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| x Salvation |
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Jesus Christ |
In religion, salvation is the concept that God or other Higher Power, as part of Divine Providence, "saves" humanity from spiritual death or eternal damnation by providing for them an eternal life (cf. afterlife). Salvation has been termed the major...
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| x Repentance |
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Jesus Christ |
Repentance is a change of thought and action to correct a wrong and gain forgiveness from a person who is wronged. In religious contexts it usually refers to confession to God, ceasing sin against God, and resolving to live according to religious...
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| x Black Liberation | Assata Shakur | ||||
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | |||||
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