Until its moral capital had completely vanished, it traded on a sense of moral outrage
at the injustices of the world, and it proposed a revolution to create a better one.
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.
With limited resources at their disposal, lying on the floor and kicking their legs
at the injustice of the adult world probably seems like an appropriate course of action.
3yo boy calms down slightly, still sniffling
at the injustice of it all, and I try to continue breastfeeding Baby Girl.
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.
Perhaps closest is Jackson's Major Marquis Warren, who gives a long speech that's notable for both its righteous anger
at the injustice of slavery and the absolutely filthy way he goes about gaining some small measure of revenge for it.
It'll also leave you angry
at the injustices of life in the country and also a little out of breath at the incredibly sexual sequences.
But that excerpt had me raging internally
at the injustice of what was happening.
I left frustrated
at the injustice of «the system» and # 110 poorer.
Not exact matches
After purchasing Tidal for $ 56 million last March, Jay Z unveiled the service
at a bizarre launch event
at a New York City post office, during which top - selling artists quoted Nietzsche and bemoaned the financial
injustices of the music business.
This includes «chronic, structural racial
injustice — such as the persistent paucity
of black faculty members and administrators
at Yale, the common experience
of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»
He went on to use the specifics
of Mill's case to paint a picture
of injustice in the criminal justice system
at large, including how black people are disproportionately imprisoned for probation or parole violations.
Trump took a decidedly different approach to his post-election tweeting, unleashing a barrage
of hate, calling Obama's victory a «disgusting
injustice» that was creating a nation divided, while
at the same time calling for revolution.
The United Nations» adoption
of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, or Global Goals) has the world poised
at an historic crossroads — setting a course to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and
injustice, and protect our planet.
At first, Camus favored execution for «men
of treason and
injustice» who had held high positions in the Vichy government.
When we look
at the Bible holistically, we see the mandate is for every citizen in the kingdom
of God to eradicate
injustice The command is there, hidden in plain sight like a plot twist in a movie that our eyes missed because they were looking for something else.
At the same time, many
of the patrons
of racial
injustice throughout history have been Christians.
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.
May it continue to guide the actions
of America's citizens and government both
at home and abroad in the face
of evil and
injustice.
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.
«If anyone asserts that Adam's sin affected him alone and not his descendants also, or
at least if he declares that it is only the death
of the body which is the punishment for sin, and not also that sin, which is the death
of the soul, passed through one man to the whole human race, he does
injustice to God and contradicts the Apostle, who says, «Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned» (Rom.
Anger is your emotion
of choice but it is almost always directed
at injustice, and it never lasts long.
Some
of you are probably incensed
at the systemic
injustice that has allowed the absurdly wealthy to accumulate riches while people with lower incomes struggle to get by.
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.
* worship God, who has never been,
at any time for any reason, a capricious God
of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic
injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion
of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.
«Set in Mississippi
at the height
of the Depression, this is the story
of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face
of racism and social
injustice.
At the very moment they experience the utter bleakness
of abandonment, Powers's favored characters glimpse some benign possibility built into the universe, itself vulnerable, faintly but unmistakably detectable amid suffering and
injustice.»
An understanding
of God characteristically is ideological in this way when it suggests that the
injustice from which some suffer and others benefit is not evil
at all but rather is divinely sanctioned.
Their sense
of having suffered
injustice at our hands, along with a growing sense
of autonomy and dignity among Latin American nations in general, seems to have been a significant element in our decision.
The Declaration further invoked the Christian tradition
of civil disobedience, affirming the right and
at times the obligation to oppose
injustice by refusing to comply with civil authority if it attempts to undermine these basic human rights: «We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar's.
At the heart
of the issue was the fact that exclusivism just didn't feel right to me, it didn't fit with my very core sense
of right and wrong,
of justice and
injustice,
of good and evil.
Familiar examples
of such action would include the advocacy
of social services aimed
at the redistribution
of material well - being so that there would be some agreed - upon level
of affluence for all, including refusal to live above this parity level, unilateral disarmament, pacifism, nonviolent refusal to abide by existing laws that perpetuate
injustice with the willingness to suffer the penalties that existing laws demand.
He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt
of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by
injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase
of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds
of humanity (exist) in situations
of misery,
of hunger,
of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live
at the cost
of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number
of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts
of nearly all the large cities.»
At the same time, many
of the poor and the recently impoverished have opted for participation in churches that embrace forms
of the «prosperity gospel,» which promises rapid physical healing and does not challenge structural
injustices.
who innocently suffers the consequences
of other people's
injustices, and who as the creative Word
of God has the power and authority to identify with every victim
of injustice and, as the one who suffers
at our hands, grants us absolution from our evil.
«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.»
He takes so seriously the injunction to love God and his neighbor that he can not be
at ease before
injustice, evil - doing, or the suffering
of others.
@ TTTOO:»... if God were not angry
at injustice and deception and did not make the final end to violence God would not be worthy
of our worship.
Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception
of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means
of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory
of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus
of injustice and the goals
of particular states as inherently
at odds with the achievement
of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms
of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.
But despite the linguistic problems associated with this designation, it seems that the epithet «preacher,» in the sense
of «pastor,» is indeed an appropriate one,
at least theologically.36 According to Duncan Macdonald, we have done Qoheleth an
injustice by viewing his work as reflecting only a spirit
of resignation and despair.
At this point, hopefully, I've shown that
injustice, while a vexation to be overcome as best we can, is a fundamental component needed for the survival
of the species.
This kind
of thought, which
at its worst was found in the parody popularized decades ago that «there'll be pie in the sky, when you die» as a compensation for
injustice today, is hardly attractive to men and women who insist that justice is to be done now.
Not remembered as the greatest 200m final in Olympic memory (that accolade probably goes to Michael Johnson and his world record time
of 19.32
at the Atlanta Games or Usain Bolt
at 2016 Rio Olympics), this moment would be remembered for the events after the race: three athletes» protest against the violence, subjugation and oppression
of racial
injustice.
Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an
injustice and
at the same time a grave evil and disturbance
of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do.
And my anger
at everything unethical and dishonest makes it that much more difficult to express myself in an empathetic manner to those who I view as brainwashed victims and brainwashed perpetrators
of injustice, criminal and unethical behavior, etc..
Christian activity has been responsible for introducing new concepts
of social responsibility, while
at the same time alleviating some
of the suffering,
injustice, and oppression caused by society.
At the same time that ministers were trying to relate Christianity to the crisis
of the modern economic
injustice, there were others busily engaged in attacking all who deviated from what they conceived to be the fundamentals
of Christianity.
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.»
Unfortunately there are abuses - various forms
of injustice, exploitation, violence, and arrogance — which some people make
of a practice which is in itself acceptable, and so we arrive
at the forms
of unbridled capitalism.
The one example given
of the teaching
of injustice at Harvard given by the Harvard student is Harvey Mansfield.