Sentences with phrase «demands justice for the poor»

It's the late 1960s, a time of international protest, and Udayan joins the Mao - inspired Naxalite movement, which demands justice for the poor.

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Together these leaders — long identified with the struggle for racial and economic justice — demand a test of vouchers with one basic criterion in mind: «Do public scholarships help or hurt our poorest children and the children of ethnic minorities?

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

There is a clear demand on the part of the Christians in India to work for economic justice especially in view of the swifter and greater marginalization of the poor as a result of economic reforms under globalization.

The Church has always linked personal asceticism and the search for holiness with this demand for mercy and justice to the poor; the Lenten trilogy of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving is both fundamental and structural.

The Holiness of Yahweh does involve the divine demand for justice and righteousness; and Isaiah follows Amos in the categorical condemnation of Israel's social sins (see, e.g., 1:16 - 17, 21 - 23: 3:14 f. — «grinding the face of the poor»!

We have sharp rhetoric about social justice, but the preferential option for the poor is an open - ended exhortation, not a precise moral demand like the condemnation of taking innocent life as an intrinsically evil act.

A test that hears the demands of the poor and most vulnerable for climate justice.

But demands for climate justice too often ignore basic practicalities of energy, poverty, and climate change, directing our gaze away from the issues that really matter to the future prospects of both the global poor and the planet and toward issues that don't.