The poor and marginalized were beginning to realize that God's Love gave them a worth and dignity that their human society had denied them which threatened both the religious and the secular power structures that always seek stability at the expense of justice rather than through justice. (nakedpastor.com)
War, militarism, landlordism, predatory industries, and finance are the demons he named that shape social institutions toward fostering their own respectability and perpetuation at the expense of justice. (religion-online.org)
It grew out of concern by staff of the American Baptist Convention that ecological concerns not be emphasized at the expense of justice nor justice at the expense of ecology. (religion-online.org)