Sentences with phrase «in justice goal»

We are, of course, mostly interested in Justice Goal 16.

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Emerson Collective is Powell Jobs» recent enterprise, founded in the early 2000s, which has invested capital in a number of education - related ventures, as well as in social justice projects in keeping with the group's goal of «opening doors to opportunity.»

One of the goals of the revival was to pray for justice issues but also take a stand against what the organizers see as an unbiblical rise in American nationalism among Christians, especially since the election of President Trump.

I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

In his speech «The Future of Integration,» Martin Luther King Jr. said, «Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.»

Its origin and its goal are found in justice, which by its very nature has to do with ethics.

Much of the motivation for this form of action for justice depends on hope for success in achieving the declared goals within a foreseeable time span.

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.

Both parties are in principle dedicated to the same goals — namely, justice in the nation and the welfare of all the people — but they have somewhat different convictions about what justice and welfare concretely mean and about how these benefits may best be secured.

Rather than giving up when our hard work fails to result in perfection or to accomplish our goals, we are able to see that improvement in justice or compassion or social conditions can make a difference in the lives of our fellow human beings that really matters.

Justice is not a fully satisfactory goal in itself because it falls short of love, being dependent upon coercive power on the one hand, and requiring rational calculations in the balancing of rights against rights on the other.

As John Snow, a professor of pastoral theology, points out, the Christian family was seen in the New Testament as an agent of the coming community of love and justice, a new kind of «kingdom»: «Its goal was not to make a house a home for a family but to make the world a home for humankind.»

Giving is never discouraged, but the goal in giving is not to give a certain amount, but to give in ways that rights wrongs, restores justice, helps the poor, and encourages dependence upon God.

Imperative Christianity does not ask whether the love of neighbor will bring forth a society in which all men will love their neighbors; it acts in hope, to be sure, but love and justice are its immediate commands and not its far - off goals.

But he does correctly show that the positive goals of contemporary liberals - in particular autonomy, distributive justice, and equality - are guaranteed to exacerbate the evils it is the negative task of liberalism to avoid.

The Kingdom of God is a reality here and now, but can be perfect only in the eternal order... The primary principle of Christian Ethics and Christian Politics must be respect for every person simply as a person... The person is primary, not the society; the State exists for the citizen, not the citizen for the State... freedom is the goal of politics... Freedom, Fellowship, Service — these are the three principles of a Christian social order, derived from the more fundamental Christian postulates that Man is a child of God and is destined for a life of eternal fellowship with Him... Love... finds its primary expression through Justice — which in the field of industrial disputes means in practice that each side should state its own case as strongly as possibly it can before the most impartial tribunal available...

In concrete fashion the document advances three values against which energy policies and technologies may be measured for their consistency with the goal of ecological justice: sustainability, equity and participation.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and, therefore, the criterion and goal of all human endeavor, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the state to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order, freedom and justice.

Justice, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity are the goals to which «we the People» commit ourselves in establishing the nation - state.

I believe that the Christian contribution to a «secular» concept of humanity as essentially a Community of Persons can be best made if we maintain the message of the gospel that God became incarnate in the Person of Jesus Christ to overcome the alienation of humanity from God and to create a Koinonia in Christ around the Eucharist, a Community of divine forgiveness and mutual forgiveness acknowledging Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, transcending all religious cultural and ideological divisions with a mission to build a wider Secular Koinonia of mutual forgiveness and justice among the peoples of the world, as witness to the ultimate goal of creation, namely the Kingdom of God.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and therefore the criterion and goal of all human endeavour, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the State to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order.

Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.

On one page of the journal that she started in the early days of Smoke Signals, she wrote: Long - term goal: Use my business for social justice, community organizing, and individual empowerment.

the two assists do not give him justice as he was involved in at least four of the goals.

Even though we very much wanted to see a goal celebration, especially in the final minutes, a scoreless draw was justice.

What Xhaka has to realise, is that the only justice you get on the football pitch comes in the form of GOALS.

Most importantly dpthough the back door stayed shut and the goal was justice served in my view, a win for the better team on the night.

Our only goal is getting justice for the Jane Doe victim and bringing to light any accomplices to her rape that took place in August.

Repealing the Second Amendment would be the best way to «weaken the NRA» and help the students who have protested around the country achieve their goal of sweeping gun control, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in a NY Times OpEd.

Instead, officials said, the bills, known collectively as the Criminal Justice Reform Act, seek to balance the goal of fairer punishment, laid out by Melissa Mark - Viverito, a Democrat who is the Council speaker, with the Police Department's desire to maintain the discretion that officers use in making arrests, for even seemingly trivial offenses, when they deem it necessary.

Asked for more detail on how Stringer got to the three - year goal and what that «data analysis» looked like, the comptroller's office told Gotham Gazette that the ten - year timeline is simply too long, that if New York wants to be a leader in criminal justice reform, it must move faster.

At UNESCO in Paris France, President Mahama spoke at the IPDC event and advanced the frontiers of peace, justice, media freedoms and responsibilities as they relate to the attainment of the SDGs particularly SDG goal 16.

But a variety of Democratic goals, including criminal justice reforms that were pushed in the aftermath of the Eric Garner grand jury decision, could prove difficult to get through the Senate.

«At its best, it faced up to the big challenge of progressive politics in the 21st century, which is how to achieve the goals of social justice in an era when we can't spend.

In the way the city's criminal justice coordinator works to set and develop policy, so would the civil justice coordinator — and Mr. Levine said his goal would be scaling up to a universal right to counsel in cases that could be potentially life - altering, such as eviction, custody matters, and deportation hearingIn the way the city's criminal justice coordinator works to set and develop policy, so would the civil justice coordinator — and Mr. Levine said his goal would be scaling up to a universal right to counsel in cases that could be potentially life - altering, such as eviction, custody matters, and deportation hearingin cases that could be potentially life - altering, such as eviction, custody matters, and deportation hearings.

«We share many of the goals of the advocates in terms of helping survivors get justice for sexual abuse, which is a horrendous sin,» Poust said.

We know racial justice is a worker issue, that racial equality is a union goal: we can not win at work when race divides us, nor does fairness truly exist when some of us are profiled at home, targeted on the streets, and treated unequally in the courts.

The Office's goals are to enhance the economic, civic, and social integration of immigrant New Yorkers; facilitate access to justice for immigrant New Yorkers; and advocate for continued immigration reforms at all levels of government in order to eliminate inequities that impact New York's immigrant communities.

You know, the justice system is a fundamental institution of our democracy, and it has two basic goals: to do justice, to deliver a just outcome, and two, to instill in the public confidence that the justice system works for all, right?»

Water's value is evident in all of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, from poverty alleviation and ending hunger, where the connection is long recognised — to sustainable cities and peace and justice, where the complex impacts of water are only now being fully appreciated.

The group says that their recommendations are intended to «uphold overriding societal goals» by promoting global justice and human dignity in seeking to ensure that the medical benefits of stem cell research are made widely accessible.

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Collaboration is the latest buzzword for what many in the environmental / social justice community have been doing for decades — working together toward a common goal.

THE JUDGE has high - minded goals beyond making itself Oscar ™ - bait, but issues of justice, rule of law, and the simple joys of small - town life don't stand a chance against writing that relentlessly panders to Academy ™ voters, particularly when they run smack up against a courtroom scene that is deliberately staged to look like something out of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, a film we are put in mind of when Hank mentions Atticus Finch.

In his controlling opinion, Justice Kennedy laid out several means through which educators could reach those goals.

We furthermore expect that the education goal and targets will remain integrated as part of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals to be adopted in September 2015, thus recognising the critical role of education for social, economic and environmental justice and the indivisibility of human rights.

One of the best ways to develop cultural literacy and help our students understand these goals is through social justice processes and projects, activities that develop a mindset of concern for our society's inequity in wealth, education, and privilege.

Therefore, while democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity were overlapping and shared goals among the spectrum of secular, liberal, and Islamist groups (Alexander, 20120), scant discussion of the content or form of such wide - ranging frames were made available to the spectrum of protestors who participated in the revolts.

Restorative practices differ from punitive justice in that the ultimate goal is mediation rather than punishment.