Sentences with phrase «against the injustice of»

It proved itself inadequate against the injustice of slavery.

«The atheism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is — in its origins and aims — a type of moralism: a protest against the injustices of the world and of world history.

«It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

I decided that, as embarrassing as it might be to my more liberal friends, I could only pray for him, bombarding heaven with appeals against the injustice of it all.

He's fighting against the injustice of having to live in a theocracy.

After this announcement many protested against the injustice of the manner in which the elections were conducted.

But from the exile onwards the sense of corporate existence became rather less intense and the awareness of personal individuality became more pronounced.6 Ezekiel protested against the injustice of expecting one man to suffer because of the sins of another and proclaimed that God's justice would be meted out to men according to their individual deserts.

True justice would be Bryan accepting this beatdown from Owens and Zayn as part of a long - con to get Shane into the ring so that Bryan could lay hands on the guy who has made his job significantly harder for months and months, and the crowd realizing through Bryan's actions that yes, it is Shane O'Mac who is in the wrong and is the bad guy, and Bryan, Owens, and Zayn deserve to be cheered for standing up against the injustices of their patronizingly paternal corporate overlord, but I'm also not going to hold my breath on the Right Story being told here.

The event celebrates the efforts of young upstanders across Los Angeles who have spoken up against injustices of all sizes.

For centuries, Aboriginals have fought in various ways against the injustices of colonial occupation.

Railing against the injustices of the world won't necessarily help you achieve your financial goals.

Not exact matches

A symbolic, non-violent violation of the law, done deliberately in protest against some form of perceived injustice.

Unbelief is also an act of utter injustice, a transgression against all of creation and the rights of God's Names.

Just don't use your understanding of Scripture as a tool to persecute and perpetuate social injustice against others

I've been convicted before when I've seen black friends lament on social media for the lack of white Christians speaking out against injustice.

People like Santorum remind me of the Pharasees who were careful to show up in the temple full of pride and self righteous indignation for anyone who dared to question their rigid ideology yet never took one step towards bettering conditions in their society or spoke out against social and economic injustice.

Wouldn't it have been wonderful if in the last two months we were constantly engaging with the Muslims of our community, clearly expressing our differences theologically, but also standing with them against injustice?

Writing in Crisis, he observes that a crisis of conscience is created when the courts not only countenance the killing of the innocent but also decree, as in the Casey decision, that moral objection to such injustice is an offense against the constitutional order.

I dream of a movement that will agonize in prayer for weeks as Jesus did in the garden before beginning a direct action campaign against multinational corporations engaged in injustice abroad.

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.

Aware and concerned, the progressive church moves beyond itself in word and deed, but it tends to stop, short of an analysis - of and actions - against the strictures of injustice, even while it promotes programs to alleviate misery.

In the course of her research into adolescent spiritual development, Almeda Wright has heard numerous stories and testimonies from young African Americans experimenting with new ways of relating spirituality to their protests against racial injustice.

stood for, then juxtapose them against the rise of poverty, discriminatory practices and other social injustices that plague the United States today.

Feminist theologians are wise to call upon this doctrine to denounce the structures of domination and injustice that human beings perpetrate against one another.

Camus, probably with Sartre in mind, rejects the notion that existence always precedes essence (Rb 296) and states that there is a creative source for rebellion against injustice in a «moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history» (Rb 251).

I'm not defending their current policies which need more transparancy and alterations to allow anyone to believe in any religion they want, but this article masks real religious injustice of the discrimination against Tibetians and their religious practices by making it a «Christian» persecution thing.

Kyle Haselden, the late editor of the journal, explains that at a conference on Church and Society, convened by the National Council of Churches, one of the so - called «work groups» declared that American society is guilty of overt violence against the poor and maintains an unacceptable order of injustice, and that the church supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» violence.

It can deal with the consequences of injustice but can not act against the bases of injustice; it is concerned for the misery of some individuals but does not see the multitude of the poor.

It even plays the role of what Paul Nizan calls «watchdog»; that is, to the extent that it calms passions or preaches patience or permits the poor man to bear his poverty or holds up the light of hope, to that extent it becomes a party to injustice, inhibits revolt against it and supports evil.

Christian anti-slavery charity Hope for Justice has encouraged those appalled by the recent exposure of the Libyan slave trade to take action against the injustice.

No doubt they felt genuine indignation at the injustice of Jesus» condemnation and death, but they were also anxious to counteract any impression that Christianity was a subversive movement and Jesus a political agitator against the Roman government.

That means we lay down our search for justice knowing the gravest injustice of all, our own sin against God, has been justified through Christ's blood.

A greater injustice is the fact that the authors only mention a couple of violent acts by Egyptian Muslims against the Copts that happened in January and the Fall of last year.

What constitutes legitimate protection of a child and what are the obligations of a family to protest against an injustice in school segregation, for example, and to open the way for better public education?

To rally against injustice is a part of what made America its own nation, and it remains as ingrained in the national consciousness as apple pie, bald eagles and... yes, football.

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.

As Ta - Nehisi Coates documented recently in his long and compelling cover story for The Atlantic, «The Case for Reparations,» the government of the United States for centuries has perpetuated systemic injustice against African Americans.

Martin Luther King and his followers engaged in open protest against clear instances of social injustice, and they did not share Booker T. Washington's aversion to civil rights agitation; quite the contrary.

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.

We will have to labor in prayer against decay and injustice, and some of us may have to be led out of that prayer into action.

He wishes to internationalize the holy places in Jerusalem, which leaves me shaking my head in dismay (such an intervention would lead to a chaos of injustice and violence that would make the present Intifada war against the Jews seem like a picnic and would have dire consequences for the holy places themselves» so far still untouched).

McKenzie's immediate concern is what he regards (rightly, I believe) as the injustice of the procedures against Charles Curran.

For Eliade, liberation is «a passive revolt against the tragedy and injustice of History...».

The current furor, she told me in a recent e-mail, «distracts from real issues of class injustice, racial oppression, and continued discrimination and violence against women, Muslim and non-Muslim.»

He also called for involvement in the struggle against «examples of clear injustice» in the world.

This does not make only the USA guilty of great wrongs done / there's many nations ruled by tyrants / psychopaths / / those blinded by greed the great injustice by Israel against palestinians but sums up the horror that nations being capable of committing / heartless acts of inhumanity of cruelity / / based on halfbaked ideas / beliefs / religious brainwashing.

Through personal action and public pronouncements, these agency people led the church into the forefront of the fight against social injustice.

My question is, if God has truly called Christians to be «the light of the world» and seek social justice (as per Isaiah 58:6 and Matthew 25:40), how is it against God's will to highlight the many social injustices that misogyny enables?

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.

A realistic appraisal of human nature leads to a view of democracy as a dyke against the flood of self - interest, as a means of approaching basic justice in relationships between people who are by nature inclined toward injustice because they look first to their own advantage.