Even those who do feel some responsibility and want to do something about injustice don't always know what to do or how to do it.
I worry about victims who never get angry
about the injustice done to them.
To educate of other members of the adoption group and the general public
about the injustices done to the First Mother as per coercion, social pressures and worse.
I mean, this movie is mostly
about the injustices done to Native Americans right?
Through it all, the Corvette team acted like true gentlemen, never complaining
about the injustice done to them.
Not exact matches
Try supporting a man who wants to
do something
about the
Injustice in this country.»
But fired up as I was
about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages
about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to
do anything to challenge the
injustice I saw.
The Lord, in fact, didn't seem to care
about that
injustice, and didn't order Mary to help her.
I don't understand where people get this idea, that to voice anger at one
injustice somehow means that you don't care
about any other injusticies.
Sure, we hear
about trafficking in modern countries like the United States or Canada (and slavery remains a growing concern in North America), but it doesn't feel like the most pressing
injustice on our country's radar.
When you see
injustice in your city,
do you
do anything
about it?
And she seldom gets angry at all
about merely trivial offenses against her own person; the anger she
does feel is much more often occasioned by real cases of significant
injustice.
He also helps Christians understand why everyone should care (and what can be
done)
about racial
injustice through writing and music at http://AndreRHenry.com
It seems that, in the midst of black Christian outcry in 2013, the majority of white Christians pressed the snooze button on racial justice, sleepwalking into their churches where an individualistic gospel that doesn't call them to say or
do anything
about racial
injustice is preached, where white culture, rather than Christ, reigns supreme, and where the problems and perspectives of black people are ignored.
For example, many blacks have spoken out
about ongoing racial
injustice in the U.S., saying that Ferguson could happen and
does happen all over America.
This ensures that you won't use your head - center and your GUTS to
do anything
about injustice.
Second, because it was a request not a command, Abraham was free to refuse, and his refusal
did not require any argument
about the justice or
injustice of the matter.
It is hard to fathom the level of
injustice — it's not illegal and there is nothing that can be
done about it — but that doesn't make it right.
And we've seen, when issues of racial
injustice flare up, vocal pro-lifers wonder why civil rights leaders don't seem as concerned
about the
injustice of abortion.
I
do the best I can to speak out against
injustice, to question hostility, to bring to light that perhaps one should know what they are talking
about before making judgements.
«I want to hear a song
about the breakdown in your marriage, I want to hear songs of justice, I want to hear rage at
injustice and I want to hear a song so good that it makes people want to
do something
about the subject.»
But neither
do we have the reign of God for the redemption of society when Christians are unconcerned
about the plight of their fellow men, or when such giant evils as war, race discrimination, alcoholism, economic
injustice, hunger and homelessness, and the shattering of family life go unchallenged.
Those others you mentioned as god-less are no worse off then greedy capitalists who pretend to care
about morality but shut their eyes to all
injustice done to people which God hates, and has plenty to say
about!
Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I
do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I
do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed
about the
injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.»
It
does not rejoice
about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Denene Millner's posts
about parenting black boys as a black mother
did far more to wake me up to realities of racial
injustice in this country than my subscription to The New York Times, and Kristen Howerton's «Rage Against the Minivan» blog introduced me to the concept of white privilege in a way that made sense and inspired change.
Of course, as our convictions persist and mature, we begin to see the ways in which we are complicit in global wealth disparity and
injustice, and we begin to think more seriously
about policy,
about sustainability,
about making more dramatic attitude and lifestyle changes, and
about problems within some of our charities and justice groups that perpetuate a white savior complex, sometimes
doing more harm than good.
What we can
do about the
injustices in our society or on our planet is practical, partly political and partly by private individual or organized charity, though such organizations have, I suppose, their own politics.
-- The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel (Zondervan: 1998)-- Good News
About Injustice by Gary Haugen (intervarsity: 1999)-- I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist by Norman Geisler & Frank Turek (Crossway: 2004)-- Living with Questions by Dale Fincher (Zondervan: 2007)-- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (Harper: 2001)-- The Reason for God by Timothy Keller (Dutton Adult: 2008)-- Strong's (the complete library)-- Understanding Intelligent design by William Dembski & Sean McDowell (Harvest House: 2008)-- BeThinking.org — ConversantLife.com — Discovery.org/csc — Probe.org — Reasons.org
Sikhs have a history of fighting against
injustice so get your facts straight people as I had a chance to learn
about them and I wish you could
do the same.
I was told Jesus claimed to be God in the flesh (John 1:14 n Phil 2:5 ff; et al.) I was told that in
about 30AD Jesus let himself be executed for a crime he
did not commit as a way of satisfying Justice for all our
injustices — like one who pays a penalty owed by another.
While he was deeply disturbed
about the
injustice and poverty that prevailed, he
did not seek a future that would have no roots in or consequences for present realities.
And I am very concerned
about people who don't get «angry» over the
injustice done to others.
If something makes you angry — an
injustice, in particular — that is as good as an engraved invitation to
do something
about it.
When we hear
about injustice and oppression in our community, we often want to
do something.
racial segregation was so widely accepted in the churches and societies throughout the world that few white theologians,
did see the
injustice,
did not regard the issue important enough to even write or talk
about it.
It's easy to talk
about how racism isn't an issue when I don't have friends who have had their lives altered or defined by daily
injustices.
More precisely, many of them will not know what religion is
about unless it has to
do with loving involvement in the world at the points of
injustice and need.
While World Vision
does not have volunteer projects such as the ones you describe, we
do help to arrange short trips to take selected donors, pastors, and advocates to see our work in the field and to learn more
about issues of poverty and
injustice.
In fact, Black Lives Matter doesn't desire partnership with those who practice a prayer - filled non-violent approach to
injustice because they «patently reject any conservative theology
about keeping peace, praying copiously, or turning the other cheek.»
He was concerned
about the rampant
injustice of his time, although he put the matter off with the reflection that nothing could be
done, for the total of human misery was a constant quantity.
He
did not, however, vow to stop talking
about injustice.
d ref was under pressure n in dat crucial time, a decision could make him or mar him, the match ought 2 hav been over for
about 4 mins but he wouldnt, Wenger has always being unlucky, remember barca wouldnt hav won d last leg against arsenal, yet another referee worthy of death by hanging, football should unite d world, where religion cant get 2, football will but wen
injustice become 2 glaring like Barca» s, den it will fade somhow.lucas
did wat had 2 be
done n d ref fell 4 it (poor ref) soon our time will come.GUNNERS all d way
I'm sure Bolton manager Owen Coyle doesn't have time for sob stories
about what could have been had some dubious decision gone their way and what not, but there was a real sense of
injustice last Sunday as Bolton, who
did more than merely hold their own against one of England's most successful clubs, were beaten by a then struggling Liverpool with the aid of some poor officiating.
Global citizenship is
about understanding the need to tackle
injustice and inequality and having the desire and fortitude to work to
do so.
Decentralizing power and removing arbitrary power, in ways that don't create new
injustices or power inequalities, can be something labour can get radical
about and excite the electorate with.
While I wasn't delighted with the result, I've had a difficult time dealing with my distraught middle class London Remain friends crying into their smashed avocado on gluten free toast, sobbing
about how their Farrow and Ball lives are RUINED,
about the
INJUSTICE of little Jacasta being denied her human right to
do Erasmus and
about how their Italian summer plans hang in the balance.
The burning
injustice Mrs May feels
about social inequality doesn't end there.
Setting out his mission statement, he will say he joined Labour with a sense of anger at the
injustices of the world «and a sense that my parents instilled that we had a duty to
do something
about them.
But yes, I get self - conscious
about such things too and I don't even have big boobs, which seems like a huge (small)
injustice.