Sentences with phrase «justice work because»

The Good Apple Dinner is successful in furthering our justice work because of the integral support of major institutions, law firms and countless individuals who want to see positive change in Texas.

This is why many organizations don't actually want to do social justice work because, if you can imagine, this is hard and engenders extraordinary resistance, and frustration, and anger, and fear, and all kinds of stuff.

Not exact matches

Families have been ripped apart because one or more of them is so focused on the justice work they ignore their loved ones.

Because of our resolve to see truth and justice prevail, we continue to work closely with legal counsel.Our careful review of the allegations...

Thus far I have emphasized the violence worked on human beings because of the lack of attention to justice and community.

I worked to get to a place where I could trust in his justice and call evil what it was, because God is good and holy.

It's also a film that works because there are lots of stories from the perspectives of heroic soldiers and Jewish survivors of WWII, but far fewer about those living in occupied countries who did what they could, with what they had to pursue justice.

Jesus is as good as we hope, and everything for which you are longing — love, joy, peace, justice, mercy, home, good work — is real because it rooted in God's heart for us.

«I came because the young people who died deserve a tribute, that we march for the peace in the country, for justice and for the return of the democracy that has been kidnapped by this government,» said Marlene Alvarez, 26, who works in a laboratory in the capital.

We are, then, resident in this world, with the task of making it, so far as may be, a replica of the perfect justice and utter charity of our homeland, but not surprised nor in despair when the work can not be brought to complete fulfillment because the conditions of our present place of residence do not permit, or our selfishness and pride interfere.

Because the ultimate power is that of love, one is drawn to work for righteousness and to temper with love one's understanding of justice.

«It is difficult to persevere in justice because of the strange corruption of the world... it is the Virgin, alone faithful, in whom the serpent has never had a part, who works this miracle for those who serve her» (ibid.

A slave mentality There will always be a struggle between priestly authority and prophetic challenge in institutionalized religion because institutions are intrinsically conservative and will always choose social stability over justice which works to the advantage of the socioeconomic / political power - elites whose interests are served by sustaining the status quo.

No one has told them they're unwilling (or unable) to do the essential work of caring for the world and their fellow beings — they just go ahead and do it, because love, justice, and compassion are the right thing to do.

Because of work during the week, I feel like I can only do justice to the bread baking process on weekends.

Men at Work may have to rework their lyrics for «Land Down Under» because 6» 4 ″ and full of muscle hardly does these two justice.

I consider my work «radical» because, although «radical» or «activist» work at large is perceived as protests and / or changing legislation, I believe that the emotional labor, relationship building, and advocacy are important (and overlooked) parts of justice work.

In 2012, Madame Noir noted her «Queen Mother of a Midwife Movement,» because of her pioneer midwifery work intersecting with reproductive justice work.

Comparison with the US is a problem, however - the justice system in the Netherlands is well - known to be rather lenient (A recent media event was the public apology by the Dutch IOC member Camiel Eurlings for domestic violence - the justice department decided not to press charges because he was doing volunteer work!).

Miliband's vague social justice message — of a fair deal for working families - was formulated because it needed to stretch itself across such disparate political constituencies.

Cuomo and criminal justice reform advocates said that local district attorneys have a natural conflict of interest when it comes to investigating the police because the two agencies work so closely together to gain convictions.

«When Sen. Velmanette Montgomery gives her life and her soul to work on a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system, which we certainly need in this state, and then Ruben Diaz Sr. decides that he's going to vote against it because he's upset the Republicans are debating it too long it's unreasonable and capricious and it's the kind of irrational behavior that we've had to endure for the past eight years,» Parker told me.

«The clients have been short - changed, they paid lawyers to work and because there is no Justice, they can not work and if it is the whole nation it means an arm of government has stopped working and this is very serious and a constitutional chaos» one other lawyer complained.

«I would urge you to continue to collect this data both so that we continue to have the same evidence - based argument for justice, but also so that we can prove that the policy changes work because we need to be able to prove that, that what we all know on an ideal level really will have an economic and social impact,» Clinton said.

«Ali will bring an agenda of inclusion to the New York City Council and work hard for economic justice because there are enough resources in our communities for everyone to prosper.»

Peoples - Stokes says the theme was chosen because social justice issues are contingent on how well labor works with communities of color, and progressive communities.

He said: «The Brexit secretary is a complex character because he and I have worked together on issues of justice.»

Justice minister Simon Hughes admitted last month he couldn't visit women's rehabilitation centres because to visit one and not all of them would open up the Ministry of Justice to judicial review after the work is contracted out.

«And that's not just New York, it's a problem all across the country and it's a problem in reality and it's a problem in perception and if it's a problem only in perception, it is still a real problem because people have to trust the justice system and the trust has to go both ways,» Cuomo said, speaking about police and community, but also referring to the oft - cited conflict of interest around police and prosecutors who regularly work together but can then be at odds when an officer is suspected of a crime.

Maffei, a Democrat from Syracuse, says while Katko worked for the Justice Department, he let former Oswego mayor John Gosek off easy because he was a fellow Republican.

yet the liberals want to scream that the justice system doesn't work when a guy is judged not guilty because he was exercising his right of self defense.

It invents a government agent in Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Salvation), who announces that he is from a secret agency he can't name but, «when scientists shit the bed, I'm the guy they call to change the sheets»; he deserves a movie all of his own, not least because, just what the hell is happening in this world that he gets regular work?

A pen - pushing desk - jockey who halts the prevalence of real justice by insisting they need a little thing called evidence that we all hate because he doesn't allow real police work like punching and stuff, check.

When Mildred puts up her billboards, the non-white citizens of Ebbing support her, because this town is a microcosm of America, in which there are two justice systems and they do not work equally for all.

The film works nonetheless, because its primary focus is on a fairly clear case of corruption that led to a single instance in which justice was thwarted in the name of activism.

Also, it's important to point out we work very hard to press back against the inclination that is shared by leaders in philanthropy, government, and education, that the best metric for measuring the success of our students and alumni is recidivism rates because it frames our work overwhelmingly in the context of criminal justice in a way that reduces our students to simply the people that have been incarcerated for a criminal offense.

The Supreme Court issued a long - awaited decision yesterday in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a seven - to - one ruling (Justice Elena Kagan recused herself because she had worked on the case as U.S. Solicitor General) that sends the affirmative action case back to a lower court for further review.

Through interviews with 50 white Americans, who work in community organizing, education, and criminal justice reform, Warren shows how white Americans can develop a commitment to racial justice, not simply because it is the right thing to do, but because they see the cause as their own.

These future state, tribal, and national leaders are going to make better decisions and have a better opportunity to work for justice for all because they will not be scared of the others,» Juneau said.

We work together in POWER - PAC, and built our «Elementary Justice Campaign: Stopping the School - to - Prison Pipeline» because we've felt at times that school discipline works against — not with — our children and families.

We are educators who believe that education is an integral part of social change and that we must work both inside and outside the classroom because the struggle for justice does not end when the school bell rings.

Calling him an overnight success wouldn't do justice to the sheer amount of work he's put in, but Michael has made a lot of progress over a short period of time because he's not afraid to revolutionize and think outside the box.

This included two years when no actual writing got done because I was working eighteen - hour days as a volunteer for the Bhopal justice campaign.

I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for reaching our human potential as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.

It's unfortunate Powell couldn't work on all Mondo video game released, because certainly this Contra art does the game's visual's justice.

If you like the sample images on this page, which as usual completely fail to do justice to the original works, then be sure to visit her website, or her online gallery, because her prices are amazing - you simply can't afford to refuse!

It is also practically important because the first four IPCC reports, although not completely ignoring all ethical and justice problems with economic arguments about climate change policies, failed to examine the vast majority of ethical problems with economic arguments against climate change policies while making economic analyses of climate change policies the primary focus of Working Group III's work thereby leaving the strong impression that economic analyses, including but not limited to cost - benefit analyses, is the preferred way to evaluate the sufficiency of proposed climate change policies.

Isabel Pérez, one of the participants in Madrid, wrote: «I participated to the Action Day for Climate and Energy Justice because I know it's really urgent and necessary to work for an energy transition, but also for a change in our way of life.

Quite a few individual lawyers who work harder and make less money than others, because they want better access to justice and are willing to make sacrifices to advance that goal, are the praiseworthy exceptions.

The necessary remedy is for the courts to use the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Part I of The Constitutional Act, 1982), much more aggressively against governments and law societies because they control the resources necessary to make the justice system work adequately.