7 sentences with “justification”

Europeans viewed Africans as non-Christian, which they used as a justification for slavery.

In turn, Zoroastrianism provided a spiritual justification for the expansion of the Persian Empire.

Very quickly, however, the theory of evolution was taken over as a justification for both rigid class distinctions and racism.

Virginian Thomas Jefferson and John Adams of Massachusetts, with the support of Congress, articulated the justification for liberty in the Declaration of Independence.

English promoters of colonisation pushed its commercial advantages and the religious justification that English colonies would enable the establishment of Protestantism in the Americas.

Any discussion of the Nazis must begin with Adolf Hitler. It is impossible to overstate Hitler's importance to Nazism: his own private obsessions became state policy and were used as justification for war and genocide.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was first published in 1903 by the Russian secret police as justification for continued anti-Semitic restrictions in the Russian Empire, and subsequently gained prominence after World War I when it was used as "proof" that Jews had caused the war in order to disrupt the international political order.