The myth of the managerial expert is very damaging, because it shifts the education conversation away from important social issues
like justice and equality to technocratic concerns like «accountability» and «efficiency.»
Not exact matches
WDN marshals resources for a number of issues —
like reproductive
justice, racial equity,
and economic opportunity — but the cause closest to Hall's heart is civic
equality for women.
Off hand, she mentioned that she feels
like we need to create pipelines for people to move towards God's idea of
equality and justice.
So far as they act
like the others — even to forward social
justice,
equality, etc. — I say that there is no sense
and nothing specifically Christian in acting
like the others.
If the younger brother was anything
like the rest of us, he probably found reason to be jealous of his older brother, to complain against him, maybe even to blame his older brother for his own poor choices,
and maybe even to cry out to his father for
equality, fairness,
and justice.
Like Christianity, secular humanism has many noble aspirations for human society, such as peace,
justice and equality.
In contrast, progressives seek to ensure «
equality and justice,» by guaranteeing these outcomes through the enactment of a series of ««positive» rights
like housing, food,
and health care» that someone must provide — be it government or the private sector.
Smith's response is worth reading, as an early exercise in that question of religious faith
and national loyalty that continues to be asked of Catholics, if today usually in indirect but more aggressive ways,
like «How could you refuse our version of
equality and justice and not provide contraceptives to your employees?»
Even though French mentions Lady Gaga
and her little monsters disparagingly, I believe it's actually grassroots movements for
equality and justice like hers that could possibly change the world
and make it a better place.
Also, he sees freedom
and equality as perennial principles of
justice that,
like agape in relation to philia
and justice, serve as judgment on their approximations (or lack thereof),
and call communities to fuller approximations.
The second question is related to the above: a «free market» baseline of
justice is about procedure - how outcomes are arrived at, who is involved in making decisions, has rights over their own actions, how actions are agreed by parties etc. (or something
like that) whereas
equality is an outcome, that may or may not be achieved under various procedural arrangements,
and may or may not be viewed as desirable by people who hold different views about what forms of society - specifications over who has what rights to do what to who.
What ideologies do, then, is to try
and harness the meaning of political language — concepts
like freedom,
justice and equality — in order to motivate action.
As agonistic thinkers
like Bonnie Honig rightly argue (see the interview with herhere), it is important to see the common good not as agreed upon in a set of formal procedures or as fixed principles of
equality, liberty,
and justice.
«I would
like to thank everyone in the party for their support over the years; I wish everyone the very best for the future
and in those common struggles for peace,
justice and equality that I am sure we will all continue to be involved in.»
Achieving gender
equality, social
justice,
and environmental sustainability is not going to be achieved without people
like you agitating for change, whether in your workplace, in politics, or more broadly in society.
«
Like you, I believe education is a civil rights issue,» Wareing wrote, «but consigning other people's kids to dilapidated buildings
and / or schools that have not gotten the job done for a decade or more,
and / or schools that are so small that they can not sustain quality programming doesn't further the causes of civil rights,
equality,
and justice.»
For the Lunaticks were not only scientists, but also pragmatists
and humanists who believed in
and spoke out for concepts
like equality and justice.
The Baha'i faith centers on principles
like unity,
justice,
equality,
and altruism,
and its teachings promote the agreement of science
and religion.
Sam Glover: It almost sounds
like — going back to your three columns of diversity, cultural competency,
and social
justice and equality — that instead of diversity, we used to have racism.