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Who is crying out for justice and peace from the margins, and what will I do to heed their calls?

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In November of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November Eleventh as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: «To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations...»

«To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with lots of pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.»

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 this way the oppressive political order, unjust exploitation, war for security and survival, and harmony with the nature will be expelled from the created order of God, and justice, peace, and integrity of creation will be fulfilled in the Garden of God.

«This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace.»

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever.

During his visit in 1982, Blessed Pope John Paul II referred to Great Britain as having an «exalted destiny in justice and in peace», and I believe we have clung to this sense from our earliest times.

The confines of individualism, the closed world of consumption, the supremacy of productivism - and, for many, an obsessive struggle for sheer daily survival obscure humanity's larger objectives: the right to live liberated from oppression and exploitation, the right to equal opportunities, social justice, peace, spiritual fulfillment and solidarity.

An over-arching burden for peace and justice, setbacks in the freedom struggle, death threats and personal doubts and guilt from his own moral failings left King a ragged man.

To distinguish, as Christians must, eternal peace from earthly peace, eternal salvation from this - worldly liberation, social justice from the righteousness of faith does not diminish or discredit the temporal social - historical dimensions of what is true and good and beautiful.

Our actions to promote peace, justice, and liberation are not on the same plane as the qualitatively other kingdom which God has brought from beyond our world of possibilities through Jesus Christ.

And yet there is more to this Kingdom that is still to come, Jesus said, and so we await a day when every tear will be wiped from every eye, when swords will be beaten into plowshares and spears shaped into a pruning hooks, when justice will cascade like a river down a mountain and righteousness like a never - ending stream, when people from every tribe and tongue and nation will live together in peace, when there will be no more deaAnd yet there is more to this Kingdom that is still to come, Jesus said, and so we await a day when every tear will be wiped from every eye, when swords will be beaten into plowshares and spears shaped into a pruning hooks, when justice will cascade like a river down a mountain and righteousness like a never - ending stream, when people from every tribe and tongue and nation will live together in peace, when there will be no more deaand so we await a day when every tear will be wiped from every eye, when swords will be beaten into plowshares and spears shaped into a pruning hooks, when justice will cascade like a river down a mountain and righteousness like a never - ending stream, when people from every tribe and tongue and nation will live together in peace, when there will be no more deaand spears shaped into a pruning hooks, when justice will cascade like a river down a mountain and righteousness like a never - ending stream, when people from every tribe and tongue and nation will live together in peace, when there will be no more deaand righteousness like a never - ending stream, when people from every tribe and tongue and nation will live together in peace, when there will be no more deaand tongue and nation will live together in peace, when there will be no more deaand nation will live together in peace, when there will be no more death.

Other factors inhibiting the church from developing a new understanding of creation are the patriarchal nature of the ecclesiastical establishment and the expectation of a millennial period in which human strife will be overcome and superseded by a reign of peace and justice.

From the Old Testament to the New Testament, God continually calls us to justice, to love, peace and mercy and, above all, to accompany the marginalized, foreigners, widows and orphans.

Nevertheless, Whitehead's own writings on the history of society show that «peace» is unstable apart from justice and that the union of zest with peace accounts for the adventurous aim toward transcending the relative justice and injustice of any given social order.

Insofar as the need for defense provides just cause for public use of the sword, it comes from the responsibility of government to protect order, justice, and peace, not simply from the right to respond to an attacker in kind.

Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.

And even though I continued to search for a more traditionally orthodox basis for my political commitments, I drew much inspiration and solace from the witness of Christian people of more liberal theological convictions who modeled for me a courageous commitment to the biblical vision of justice and peaAnd even though I continued to search for a more traditionally orthodox basis for my political commitments, I drew much inspiration and solace from the witness of Christian people of more liberal theological convictions who modeled for me a courageous commitment to the biblical vision of justice and peaand solace from the witness of Christian people of more liberal theological convictions who modeled for me a courageous commitment to the biblical vision of justice and peaand peace.

«If the image of God and the law of God were completely obliterated from man's soul by sin, if no «faint outlines» of the original remained, men would have no conception of justice, righteousness, or peace to use as the foundation of the human standards of equity.

And to the extent that we are serious in our prayers for justice or peace or healing for others we become allies with God in the struggle for these, and we proceed from prayer to right actiAnd to the extent that we are serious in our prayers for justice or peace or healing for others we become allies with God in the struggle for these, and we proceed from prayer to right actiand we proceed from prayer to right action.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

It is to create «open space», opening doors, enlarging the table, enabling churches and faiths to meet, to have dialogue and to learn from one another, to share their diversity, to become more inclusive, and to strive for justice and peace, for the integrity of all creation and for the unity of all humanity.

Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and for evermore.

It is from his Sacred Head that all Wisdom shines out, and from his Sacred Heart that all tenderness, compassion, justice, peace and true charity flow - and all mercy too.

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To reject materialism, greed, sensualism, militarism, power, status and the American way of life, and to affirm peace, justice, the unity of all peoples, the sanctity of human life, human rights and equal economic opportunity, is to be radically different in world view and action from the world around us.

It only further demands from all those who are aspiring for peace and justice a renewed commitment for interfaith work at all levels.

Initially, RCDA had support from some of the oldline churches, but that dried up when leaders decided that embarrassing news about Communist behavior got in the way of a «peace and justice» agenda that required cordial relations with the oppressive regimes of the East.

But in the view of most observers — from Dan Rather to the bestowers of the Templeton Award — the Reverend Mr. Graham had become the Reverend Dr. Graham, a forceful voice for world peace, social justice and ecological sanity.

We had been released by our supporting religious denominations from the encumbrances of liturgical and institutional forms to go with the «movement» for racial justice and for peace.

Its main point, which comes only two sentences from the end, is expressed this way: «To those to whom truth has been revealed, who continue in the tradition of the Holy One's followers, the call is not only to offer words of praise, confessing that Jesus is Christ the Lord, but to offer our lives as the instruments of this Lord of peace and justice.»

«Apart from the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth,» they explain, the Church «really does not know» the meaning of abstractions like peace and justice.

Christian ethics starts from the position that God created the world for good and that war involves great evil, and calls us to a stewardship that enjoys much convergence based on agape as redeeming love, but also significant divergences over the best strategies to establish peace with justice.

Just like the promise, this fundamental hope was articulated in particular hopes — hopes for a more or less cataclysmic interruption of history, when God would establish his kingdom of justice and of peace upon earth, when Israel would be saved from enemies without and sinners within, to serve their God with singleness of heart.

«It is important that we remain committed to working together with our friends from other faith communities and each other to ensure that we build a resilient society in which all are welcome and none feel excluded, so that we can truly pursue justice, show mercy and seek peace.»

Though a so - called Christian working for justice, peace, and order in the created world, MacArthur did so from a consciousness informed by the hegemonic ideologies of the first world, ideologies that sought to divide existing communities.

(2) The «utopia» of peace and justice (i.e., the expectation of «a new age») is not an ideal construction from which certain consequences are derived for specific situations but, on the contrary, it is the coming together in a vision of the specific struggle of the community to solve the conflicts, contradictions and difficulties that they find in everyday life — political, social, religious, economic.

From this very moment we are engaged in destroying this peace and justice and affluence.

The controversial «Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace» makes the international financial crisis, still unfolding around us in slow motion, the occasion for a renewed call for a «global political authority.»

Then through all of the vicissitudes of actual life in the ancient Near East, God made himself a people from those forebears — delivering them from slavery in Egypt, protecting them against their enemies, leading them through the terrors of the wilderness, entering into covenant with them, giving them his guiding presence in the covenant law, bringing them into a land flowing with milk and honey, giving them a Davidic king to be their protector of justice in peace and in war, and finally taking up his own dwelling in their temple on the Mount of Zion.

The peace - and - justice crowd continues to reel from the collapse of Communism.

The centrepiece of the UN Nations Charter is the connection between the recognitionof the inherent dignity of all members of the human family (and of the inviolable and inalienable human rights which derive from that recognition) on the one hand, and peace and justice within and among nation states on the other.

«Global philanthropic support for efforts to prevent, mitigate, and resolve conflicts totaled $ 283 million in 2013... 288 foundations awarded nearly 2,000 grants in support of more than 1,200 organizations working for peace, justice, diplomacy, and national and global security, from conducting research on the prevention of nuclear terrorism to supporting citizen journalism in Egypt.

20 candidates in Bexar, 16 in Harris, 20 more across Texas, from Justice of the Peace and Constable to President of the United States.

From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the vice president for administration and finance of CUNY's Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, Mary Coleman, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone President and CEO Kenneth Knuckles, Food Bank For New York President and CEO Margarette Purvis and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice Executive Director David Shuffler, will be honored by Rep. Jose Serrano and state Sen. Jose M. Serrano a Black History Month event; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, the Bronx.

Recycling chants from past protests like «No justice, no peace, no racist police» and «Shut it down, shut it down, Eric Garner, Mike Brown,» the left - wing crowd even took aim at Mayor Bill de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, briefly crying «This Bill de Blasio has got to go» in Foley Square.

«From Minnesota to Louisiana to Texas this one nation under God examines its soul and asks God for healing, peace, justice, reconciliation,» said Cardinal Dolan, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York.

3 interviews looking at the climate crisis from 3 angles: Medea Benjamin of Code Pink talks about the links between the peace movement and the climate justice movement — and how Code Pink started as an Environmental group -