Sentences with phrase «about the injustice of»

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.

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.»

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?

Costa has already been punished by the FA of course, but he and everyone at Chelsea have been up in arms about the injustice of it all.

And yet I'm supposed to worry about the injustice of the KC Royals not being to sign top free agents.

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.

You are not thinking that Republicans would abandon all of their talk about the injustice of filibusters and use one themselves would you?

When you stood up to show how angry you were about the injustice of some low paid single mothers going out to work and losing 96p for every extra pound they earned?

The most obvious example of this is Neil Kinnock, who ranted and raved about the injustices of the House of Lords and was opposed to joining Europe.

She's rebelling, but that rebellion is less about the injustice of seeing sexual predators roaming free without any consequences.

Friends on benefits: Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner offers a complex drama about the injustice of the U.K.'s social welfare system

The part about the injustice of the Dollar bill from the Tooth Fairy would have ruined my mascara.

In today's Publetariat Dispatch, author Alan Baxter talks about the injustice of reviews that aren't really about the book in question at all.

«A well - written, well - researched and potent critique... few get to the heart of the matter like Monbiot and very few write a compelling enough script to make you want to shout angry slogans about the injustices of corporate greed.»

And they would shout about the injustice of cops murdering Black people.

There are lawyers who offer unbundled services, who are passionate about the injustice of forcing full retainers on litigants, as this effectively blocks their accessibility to the justice system.

Huckleberry Finn is a classic illustration of Socratic irony in juxtaposing the moral contradictions of slavery from a first person narrative, by an author who, himself, experienced an epiphany and moral awareness about the injustice of slavery in his lifetime.

My prior post goes into more detail about the injustices of these proposals.

Our member educators have been vocal about the injustices of agency shop laws for years.

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.

When you think of injustice, your mind might automatically go to thinking about societal ills like crime and poverty.

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.

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

Assuming it was Christianity, it ameliorated many of the harsh realities of human existence, such as your own death, the death of a loved one, injustice, feelings of being at the mercy of the forces of nature, and so on, gave you answers to questions about life, and so on.

Still another consequence is exposed by people of the world's poorer countries, to whom talk about sustainability and reduced life styles has the familiar odor of injustice to 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.

It is the discipline of honesty about the human plight — sin, evil, injustice, unfulfilled hope, unanswered questions.

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.

Well then, if we contend against the state or social injustice only on the human level, we shall, of course, bring about some apparent changes, but the basis will remain untouched and nothing decisive for humanity will be gained.

The injustice of the situation was troublesome enough, but when my friends insisted that Zarmina went to hell because she was a Muslim, I began wrestling with some serious questions about heaven, hell, predestination, free will, God's goodness, and religious pluralism.

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

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.

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.

While expressing skepticism about the import of economic reforms on the situation of poverty and injustice, the President observed that, `' the three - way fast lanes of liberalization, privatization and globalization must provide safe pedestrian crossing for the unempowered.

«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.

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

Over the past several weeks, many of these injustices that are generally easy to avoid thinking about and dealing with, have become unavoidable.

I'm talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name — modern slavery.»

And for those of us who are white or from a Western heritage — who have been acclimated to power structures and hierarchy while being blinded to poverty and injustice — maybe we, more than anyone, should be talking about decolonizing our theology.

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.

That said, we shouldn't avoid talking about injustice because we're afraid of making things uncomfortable or offending someone.

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.

The magazine cajoled believers into feeding more of the hungry, drying up the wet (liquor interests regularly were scored), and there were editorials about lynchings and labor, gambling and injustice.

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 gooOf 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 gooof our charities and justice groups that perpetuate a white savior complex, sometimes doing more harm than good.

We at the Center had originally supposed that the conference could deal fairly quickly with the story of past injustices and move on to ideas about the future.