Examples of sentiment in the following topics:
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- The labor movement saw a period of decline during the 1920s as a result of poor leadership and anti-union sentiment.
- Union membership and activities fell sharply in the face of economic prosperity, a lack of leadership within the movement, and anti-union sentiments from both employers and the government.
- In the 1920s, anti-Filipino sentiment was fueled by the California Department of Industrial Relations statistician Louis Bloch, publisher of a bulletin on Filipino immigration into California.
- This heavily influenced the American Federation of Labor, which expounded upon anti-Filipino sentiment in equating Filipinos with the increase of "ethnic" labor, associated with declining field wages and increasing strikes.
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- In the early years of World War I, Wilson urged neutrality and attempted to mediate peace, despite growing anti-German sentiment in the US.
- Anti-war sentiment was still strong in the US, despite growing calls for an end to neutrality.
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- He wrote the Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 to describe his view of the role of sympathy and empathy in human behavior.
- On the first page of Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith writes:
- That we often derive sorrow from the sorrow of others, is a matter of fact too obvious to require any instances to prove it; for this sentiment, like all the other original passions of human nature, is by no means confined to the virtuous and humane, though they perhaps may feel it with the most exquisite sensibility.
- It is placed in the countenance and behavior of those he lives with, which always mark when they entered into, and when they disapprove of his sentiments; and it is here that he first views the propriety and impropriety of his own passions, the beauty and deformity of his own mind" (Smith, TMS, p 204).
- "This disposition to admire, almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
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- The planter aristocracy of the South, portrayed sentimentally 70 years later in the film classic Gone with the Wind, disappeared.
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- Moreover, abolitionist
sentiment, ascendant in Europe, was mobilized on behalf of the Union by
President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
- Abolitionist sentiment provided a third disincentive to recognize the
Confederacy throughout Europe.
- This shift mobilized abolitionist
sentiment, which was ascendant in Europe, on behalf of the Union.
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- Nativism refers to a political sentiment that favors greater rights and privileges for white, native-born Americans.
- This sentiment led eventually to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
- The American Party often is associated with xenophobia and anti-Catholic sentiments.
- Nativist sentiments experienced a revival in the 1890s, led by Protestant Irish immigrants hostile to Catholic immigration.
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- Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.