Sentences with phrase «advocate against injustice»

They represent a client as an advocate against injustice or may represent an individual accused of committing crime and defend them in a court of law.

At the same time, we have been community workers, lawyers, advocates, teachers and activists working to instill in the community a sense of its legal rights and protections while advocating against injustice.

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In Jesus» culture, (and indeed in many cultures today), the fatherless were especially vulnerable to poverty, exploitation, and injustice, often left without an advocate in the courts or a protector to guard them against hunger, slavery and trafficking.

Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s, when I joined protests against racial injustice and marched against the Vietnam war.

The charity added that Pastor Ton has advocated for the right to freedom of religion or belief and spoken out against social injustices.

Charleston Animal Society Outraged: Man Convicted of Abandonment in Deaths of 9 Dogs Only Given a $ 500 Fine Charleston Animal Society Urges Animal Advocates to Come to a «Candlelight Protest Against Animal Cruelty Injustice» Saturday at 6 pm at Charleston Animal Society The criminal case involving the deaths of nine dogs that were left in a -LSB-...]

In addition, Barristers» Association members take seriously their charge to be pro-active advocates for the cause against injustice.