Sentences with phrase «justice for the poor»

The brief glimpse we had of the possibility of justice for the poor and weak is a fading memory.

Why does not the prophet's ringing call for justice for the poor pulse more vigorously through conservative writings?

Just when the culture starts asking questions about economic equality and issues of international justice for the poor, the church also starts teaching and writing about similar issues.

Most commentators and legal professionals are worried that less money for legal representation will lead to less access to justice for the poorer members of society.

There was a time when the West took great efforts to protect the poor and weak, but today the rich and powerful work to advance their interests, rather then seeking justice for the poor and week.

This assumes that lawyers alone should be expected to bear the entire social burden of access to justice for the poor in a society in which the Rule of Law continues to infiltrate every aspect of modern life.

Many other readers will realize that Pullman's God is not the God of the Bible, who «abounds in steadfast love» and insists on justice for the poor.

The advocates of justice for the poor accused the environmentalists of being elitists...

Jose Miranda says bluntly, «To know Jahweh is to achieve justice for the poor....

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) seeks to achieve equal justice for poor and low - income people in greater Los Angeles.

The CNI - SBSS, the SYNODICAL BOARD OF SOCIAL SERVICES (SBSS), was conceived as a response of the Church to the whole issue of poverty and related social justice for the poor and exploited as against the prevalent ethos of relief and charity.

The Bible teaches that nations can only achieve true peace when they pursue justice for the poor, and that renewed passion for shared sacrifice must come from us, the body of Christ.

The enemies of Justice for the poor peoples are linked together: networking, merging companies, developing technologies that reduce labour requirements, hence reduce employment and the power of organized workers.

Or, as one minister said, «How can I preach justice for the poor and the oppressed when my congregation consists of mine owners and bankers?

Mary's clear passion regarding justice for the poor and marginalized undoubtedly influenced the teachings of not only Jesus, but also his brother James.

The harsh, narrow voices of the Religious Right used the label as they neglected justice for the poor and for people of color.

It challenges people of faith to act on the biblical imperatives to feed the hungry and do justice for the poor.

Concern for ecological sustainability and human justice for the poor and oppressed are, as I have already indicated, closely linked.

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

«We are very serious about ensuring there is justice for these poor animals and we feel that offering a reward is the best way of helping the authorities obtain valuable information,» said Monica Stevens, co-founder of JARR «These are not just random or accidental acts.

Jackson himself warned that a cut in scope and eligibility would seriously affect access to justice for poorer claimants.

ACCESS TO CIVIL JUSTICE FOR POOR AND LOW - INCOME NEW YORKERS: I formed a Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York... The Task Force found that we are meeting, at best, 20 percent of the civil legal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percent....

Ultimately, this is not a truly fixable problem without a government - sponsored entitlement program — meaning, there is no market solution for fixing access to justice for the poor because the poor have no money and markets run on consumer spending.

His primary purpose was to share his experience and methods for success developed in his fifty plus years of practice with lawyers dedicated to obtaining justice for the poor, the injured, the forgotten, the defenseless and the damned and to train trial lawyers be better advocates for people.

One of the weekly discussions involved justice for the poor and downtrodden, and it was from this discussion that the idea of a weekly, free legal clinic was born.

The same correlation between seeking justice for the poor and knowledge of God is equally clear in the messianic passage of Isaiah 11:1 - 9.

This call he made as a participant in the struggle for justice for the poor and as one who consistently defended secular democracy in India.

Imagine what would happen if all the evangelical institutions — youth organizations, publications, colleges and seminaries, congregations and denominational headquarters — would dare to undertake a comprehensive two - year examination of their total program and activity to answer this question: Is there the same balance and emphasis on justice for the poor and oppressed in our programs as there is in Scripture?

The advocates of justice for the poor accused the environmentalists of being elitists who were more concerned about national parks than about people.

LAFLA seeks to achieve equal justice for poor and low - income people in greater Los Angeles.

In more recent years, theologians from Latin America found in Jesus an ally in the struggle of justice for the poor.

The archbishop also asserted that laws are based upon certain principles: «the pursuit of the common good through respect for the natural law, the dignity of the human person, the inviolability of innocent life from conception to natural death, the sanctity of marriage, justice for the poor, protection of minors, and so on.»

I was honored that such a distinguished collection of Catholic intellectuals would stand in unity with their black brothers and sisters in defense of life, family, and justice for the poor.

The poor have reappeared in most countries, and governments have become instruments of the rich and powerful working to advance their interests, rather than seeking justice for the poor and weak.

As first used in environmental argument it was meant to answer the charge that environmentalism was indifferent to social justice, implying instead that sound ecological practices would automatically lead to justice for the poor, that the two were not in conflict.

History has shown that religion is not healthy for children, the planet, freedom, innocent civilians, people of other religions, little boys who trust priests, justice for the poor, education, knowledge of the world around us, social health, the arts...

So they talk instead about climate and human rights, justice for the poor, and stewardship of the earth, all, obviously, laudable goals.

They argue that justice for the poor is best served if everyone in the developed nations reduces his «carbon footprint» and thus his consumption of energy, which is mostly created from fossil fuels.

Conferences during the early days of the environmental movement were often punctuated by sharp exchanges between environmentalists and the advocates of justice for the poor.

When U.S. adults in the survey were asked if they agree that Christians have a responsibility «to work for justice for the poor» — a phrase often identified with liberal Christianity — 90 percent of Pentecostals and 85 percent of charismatic believers agreed.

God is perfect and Justice for the poor, oppressed, murdered, etc will be handed out.

Wesley, Wilberforce and Charles Finney's evangelical abolitionists stood solidly in the biblical tradition in their search for justice for the poor and oppressed of their time.

Fourth, to say that God is on the side of the poor is not to say that knowing God is nothing more than seeking justice for the poor and oppressed.

And it is dishonest to portray as a person lacking compassion someone who has honestly concluded from history and the Bible that democratic capitalism is the surest path to justice for the poor.

It is precisely Miranda's kind of one - sided, reductionist approach that offers comfortable North Americans a plausible excuse for ignoring the radical biblical Word that seeking justice for the poor is inseparable from — even though it is not identical with — knowing Jahweh.