Sentences with phrase «about injustice in»

The film is a powerful statement about the injustice in the world, and especially one of the cruel injustices of it's day.

Thank you: It is very sad that Arsene Wenger in his post match interview said the same shit about injustice in the world (cosed by evil refs) as some people on this forum minutes before his interview.

It is very sad that Arsene Wenger in his post match interview said the same shit about injustice in the world as some people on this forum minutes before his interview.

Try supporting a man who wants to do something about the Injustice in this country.»

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.

While I think the protesters are right to be raising awareness about the injustices in our society, I think one of the most important questions they need to address is the failure of their tactics, strategies and message over the past few years.

But we also spent many quieter moments talking about injustices in the world, and the need for strong international leadership to combat them.

Not exact matches

As Twitter rants go, Stewart Butterfield's was epic: a 19 - tweet barrage of comments about racial injustice, the Charleston shooting and a «preposterous» Wall Street Journal editorial that declared institutionalized racism «no longer exists» in the United States.

Top Starbucks executives and about 40 Philadelphia clergy and community leaders met in what local leaders say was the beginning of an effort to push the coffee company to play a leading role in addressing racial injustice.

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.

It's one of the things that makes it possible for me to feel completely welcome in our church, to know I'm not alone in feeling there is an injustice here, and that this is something you feel very strongly about and are working on.

The Lord, in fact, didn't seem to care about that injustice, and didn't order Mary to help her.

For instance, we are told that the Orthodox Church in Russia was «rich and powerful, but callously unconcerned about injustice and poverty.

The church has become one of most the influential young congregations in the country, regularly engaging in conversations about race and social injustice.

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?

It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.

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.

Only fools concern about their own happiness as the supreme importance and believe they should be as happy as they can be without caring injustices in the world around them because all injustices are mere fate to be accepted.

There are plenty of things to be angry about the in world: Systematic injustice, violence, powerful people taking advantage of the disenfranchised.

In the process, Glover suggests, we may also discover something about the structure of moral experience that emboldens us to struggle against forces of injustice.

«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.»

Theresa May speaks to Premier's head of news Marcus Jones about her faith, the Church's role in society and her aim to deal with injustice More

The devil on your left shoulder is whispering about this injustice and unfair behaviour whilst the angel on your right is whispering that your Heavenly Father sees it all, notes it all and in fact it is your response to it all He notes most.

This struggle brings about personal suffering, in the giving up of luxuries for oneself for the common good and in facing the determined opposition of the organized forces of social injustice, often consciously or unconsciously backed by the religious establishments.

We're truth telling about police violence and racial injustice in the criminal system.

If we have something to say about the timeless enemies of the human condition — injustice, ignorance, bigotry, exploitation, hunger, war — we will fail if we try to sound like every other voice in the public realm instead of using our language and tradition.

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.

I want to introduce my kids to a God who is both personal and public, a God who hears their prayers about being afraid to go down the slide at school and who also cares about the systems of injustice and oppression in this world.

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.

Show Me Democracy tells the story of seven St. Louis college students who are battling injustice, raising awareness about police brutality and fighting for real reform in their community and within the local education system.

Whatever discouragement I may have felt about writing Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church, I have now been reinvigorated that my book's message is indeed necessary and relevant.

Jesus is very clear about how his followers are to behave: They are not to participate in the divine wrath or war against other nations, but war against hypocrisy, greed, cruelty and injustice — war against all demonic systems that pervert the humanity of human beings.

I'd like to ignore mothers in Newtown and Palestine, I'd like to forget about systemic injustice, hungry babies, sex trafficking, loneliness.

Jesus» moments of anger reflect an anger at the injustices in our society, at persecution, which is something we should all be angry about.

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.

If something makes you angry — an injustice, in particular — that is as good as an engraved invitation to do something about it.

Like John the Baptist, Mary prophesies deliverance; she prophesies about a way that is coming in the wilderness of injustice.

When we hear about injustice and oppression in our community, we often want to do something.

The most remarkable aspect about this reaction is that the Moynihan report itself took great pains to identify white bigotry as the fundamental cause of the breakdown of the black family: «There is a considerable body of evidence,» says the report, «to support the conclusion that Negro social structure, in particular the Negro family, battered and harassed by discrimination, injustice, and uprooting, is in the deepest trouble.»

In particular, he kept seeing the baffling personal injustice involved when «the wicked doth compass about the righteous,» and, even when he thought of the nation's collective problem, his solution was not so much to blame present social tragedy on antecedent social sin as to believe that justice, now denied, would come in time — «Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.&raquIn particular, he kept seeing the baffling personal injustice involved when «the wicked doth compass about the righteous,» and, even when he thought of the nation's collective problem, his solution was not so much to blame present social tragedy on antecedent social sin as to believe that justice, now denied, would come in time — «Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.&raquin time — «Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.»

Unceasing exhortations about the need to redress the massive injustices of the past produce in time not a sense of urgency but a retreat into cynical indifference.

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.

If MLK got up on the Lincoln memorial and started talking about the injustice of how jews in brooklyn were exluding people, how many of the followers would have cared?

In Christian theology we use the language of sin to understand this — but too often sin is just a way of whining about things that make us uncomfortable instead of naming injustice and evil.

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.

In the end of the matter, it is not about the injustice that was and are inflicted upon the Indians, Chineses, Irish, Blacks, Polish, or Jew.

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.