Sentences with phrase «for the injustices of»

That can't make up for the injustice of death by evildoers.

There are many studies on justice and even on restitution and compensation, but not for the injustices of colonialism as such.

It is almost as if breastfeeding takes the infant out of poverty for those few vital months in order to give the child a fairer start in life and compensate for the injustices of the world into which it was born.»

«There is no basis in Scripture for the injustice of not allowing same - sex couples to marry,» said the Rev. Tom Davis of the United Church of Christ.

Justin Mohamed CEO of Reconciliation Australia said, «Acts such as the agreement to settle the Kenbi claim are important part of making amends for the injustices of the past and reaching the historical acceptance required for our nation's reconciliation.»

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.

Finding those with knowledge of the facts and issues surrounding child trafficking and coupling them with people who have a fiery passion for ending the injustice has allowed Love146 to grow their presence in both the US and the UK.

Just think of a meek and agreeable mother becoming fierce when a hospital bureaucrat gets in the way of care for her sick child, or an introvert moved to protest and organize by some injustice in the world.

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.

She argues that by not taking tourism seriously, governments are both failing to fully capitalize on a booming industry and leaving their countries exposed to the destructive elements that accompany foreign travel: environmental degradation, lowered living standards for the poor, sex tourism, and all the subtler injustices and annoyances that materialize when droves of foreigners arrive on your shores demanding authentic cultural experiences.

«I felt a tremendous sense of injustice that the funds aren't being used for what they should be used for,» she recalls.

Most notably, Pam has taken the lead on humanitarian issues as the founder and «guiding visionary» of Humanity United, which fights conflict and injustice in some of the most troubled places in the world — South Sudan, for example.

Donors can give and raise money from friends for a particular person, group of individuals or victims of some injustice.

Women's activism to correct this injustice has been building, as evidenced by the rising tide of financing options for -LSB-...]

Only capital punishment for traitors could root out the injustice of this period and help France to establish a just regime.

In civil wars with multiple factions, plucking criminals from one faction for prosecution may well raise cries of injustice from other factions and propel further conflict.

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.

At first, Camus favored execution for «men of treason and injustice» who had held high positions in the Vichy government.

«Men are superior to women...» «It is forbidden to play music or to stand for the national anthem or salute the flag...» «All other religions are either fabricated or false or abrogated...» «Muslims fight to free people from the injustice of other religions...»

Patterned after the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals and then the international tribunals created for Rwanda and Yugoslavia earlier in the 1990s, it is the most ambitious expression of the international community's answer to the questions yielded by massive past injustices.

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.

Populorum Progressio, the pope notes, «repeatedly underlines the urgent need for reform, and in the face of great problems of injustice in the development of peoples, it calls for courageous action to be taken without delay.»

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.

The founders of the great religions push the people into more freedom from the injustice of the previous religions (like the Pharisees) and more responsibility for themselves (Love your neighbor).

These passages suggest that the biblical solution to injustice — racial or otherwise — is not just to pray that people have a change of heart but for people to take responsibility for the societies they have built — or in our case, inherited.

For all those who have committed acts of injustice by trusting in wealth and power and showing contempt for the «little ones» who are so dear to you, we ask your fogiveness: have mercy on us and accept our repentanFor all those who have committed acts of injustice by trusting in wealth and power and showing contempt for the «little ones» who are so dear to you, we ask your fogiveness: have mercy on us and accept our repentanfor the «little ones» who are so dear to you, we ask your fogiveness: have mercy on us and accept our repentance.

The idea of a Jewish homeland as a partial reparation for an unspeakable injustice ineluctably loses its force as the immediacy of the Holocaust recedes into the past.

Obviously, there's a major difference between someone who's been the victim of abuse or an injustice than someone who got their feelings hurt over not being selected for leadership position or another, relatively trivial transgression.

The purely individual need for a fulfillment that is denied to us in this life, for an everlasting love that we await, is certainly an important motive for believing that man was made for eternity; but only in connection with the impossibility that the injustice of history should be the final word does the necessity for Christ's return and for new life become fully convincing.»

By thoughtfully advocating for changes in unjust systems, providing relief in areas of raw need, and empowering people within broken neighborhoods to love one another, the power of the Gospel to deal with individual sin and systemic injustice will be proclaimed to the watching world to the praise of our Father.

It is this conviction that Yahweh is recognized by his intervention on behalf of the poor that explains the denunciations in the Jeremiah traditions of the falsehood of Judaite faith.3 For prophets to speak words of peace in the name of Yahweh to a people who practice injustice is to speak a lie, for it is not Yahweh who has sent them (JFor prophets to speak words of peace in the name of Yahweh to a people who practice injustice is to speak a lie, for it is not Yahweh who has sent them (Jfor it is not Yahweh who has sent them (Jer.

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.

HGI may provide us with the power of knowledge and the opportunity for attaining a new and unprecedented level of human health, but it may also provide us with opportunities to exercise our greed and shortsightedness so as to open up new depths of human injustice and misery.

Of course Christians will continue to respect even the most unjust governments as they develop nonviolent campaigns to witness to injustice and press for radical change.

Second, in response to both the biblical concern for justice and the problems of resources and energy, actively support international, national and local initiatives to conserve energy and resources and to reduce poverty and injustice.

A quota system, rationalized and marketed as a tool both for mission and overcoming past injustice, had from the first another, and deeper, goal: to serve as a Trojan horse for importing the largest possible number of activists into the church bureaucracy.

«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.

Isaiah 64 gives us the language to cry out for God's forgiveness and beckon God's presence — in our homes, in our churches, on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, in the midst of the violence, materialism, injustice, and complacency that characterizes our present Empire.

Up until then, despite my painful awareness of the many injustices in global society and the responsibility of the United States for some of them, I had assumed that the global movement which had eventuated in independence for so many countries was leading to their economic development also.

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

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

If St Paul's disciples lived in a constant eager yearning for the great day of the second coming of Christ it was because they looked to the Son of Man to give them a personal, tangible solution to the problems and the injustices of earthly life.

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).

And yet it captures also that so graceful was his generous acceptance of injustice for our sake that a pagan soldier could not help but observe: Surely this man was the Son of God!

Then, too, Christians are convinced that the church can no longer play its traditional role in regard to the poor — the role of assistance, partial response, individual aid, palliative measures — because, as they see it, the problem is no longer that of the poor individual but of the system; and to ameliorate the situation of some poor people is in fact to reinforce the system, and to end injustice for one individual is to refrain from combating social injustice.

Even more important, we must never allow our appreciation for the goodness of all life to dull our awareness of the injustices inflicted upon others.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.