Sentences with phrase «make about the injustice»

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It's one of the things that makes it possible for me to feel completely welcome in our church, to know I'm not alone in feeling there is an injustice here, and that this is something you feel very strongly about and are working on.

Comments like this belie the fact that, a little like Bono (another divisive messiah figure), Brand is a serious man, increasingly serious about making the world a better place by tackling its injustices.

It is hard to fathom the level of injustice — it's not illegal and there is nothing that can be done about it — but that doesn't make it right.

I do the best I can to speak out against injustice, to question hostility, to bring to light that perhaps one should know what they are talking about before making judgements.

«I want to hear a song about the breakdown in your marriage, I want to hear songs of justice, I want to hear rage at injustice and I want to hear a song so good that it makes people want to do something about the subject.»

The prophets often make sweeping statements about social justice, but there are always specific injustices they are trying to combat — sometimes through rhetorical overstatement.

Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.»

That said, we shouldn't avoid talking about injustice because we're afraid of making things uncomfortable or offending someone.

Denene Millner's posts about parenting black boys as a black mother did far more to wake me up to realities of racial injustice in this country than my subscription to The New York Times, and Kristen Howerton's «Rage Against the Minivan» blog introduced me to the concept of white privilege in a way that made sense and inspired change.

Of course, as our convictions persist and mature, we begin to see the ways in which we are complicit in global wealth disparity and injustice, and we begin to think more seriously about policy, about sustainability, about making more dramatic attitude and lifestyle changes, and about problems within some of our charities and justice groups that perpetuate a white savior complex, sometimes doing more harm than good.

If something makes you angry — an injustice, in particular — that is as good as an engraved invitation to do something about it.

If any charge were to be made against the mainline church, it might be our laxity about the laws: sabbath practice, tithing, prayer, worship, scripture study and fighting injustice.

In Christian theology we use the language of sin to understand this — but too often sin is just a way of whining about things that make us uncomfortable instead of naming injustice and evil.

Calling for a boycott for the black athletes who've made it their job to speak fearlessly about racial injustice isn't the the job of the presidency.

Congrats to Roger Goodell and Shad Khan on making the cover of SI for pretending to care about racial injustice enough to make more money

d ref was under pressure n in dat crucial time, a decision could make him or mar him, the match ought 2 hav been over for about 4 mins but he wouldnt, Wenger has always being unlucky, remember barca wouldnt hav won d last leg against arsenal, yet another referee worthy of death by hanging, football should unite d world, where religion cant get 2, football will but wen injustice become 2 glaring like Barca» s, den it will fade somhow.lucas did wat had 2 be done n d ref fell 4 it (poor ref) soon our time will come.GUNNERS all d way

Besides, if anything I've found that motherhood has made me more political, more attuned to injustice... I'm always thinking about the world my daughter will inherit.

Addressing the women's conference he said: «Wide participation in policy making leads to more support for the policies we get, leads us to that movement that will bring about the end of this government but - beyond that - the end of the system of inequality and injustice in our society.»

Finally, auteur - cum - symbol - of - injustice Mohammad Rasoulof's extraordinary B Omid Didar — made on the sly while the Iranian filmmaker was about to be imprisoned for political activism — may be the most paranoid movie about a persecuted pregnant woman ever made.

Acting as if Wes Anderson made his film just to commit racial injustices is so strange, especially when Isle of Dogs is clearly a film about tolerating differences.

«This film was made as an answer to my own questions about how and why we have become the most incarcerated nation in the world, how and why we regard some of our citizens as innately criminal, and how and why good people allow this injustice to happen generation after generation.

His role in the trial is strategic — offering advice and, at times, a script to a green attorney, who has no experience in a criminal trial — and political — making grand pronouncements about prejudice and injustice to the gaggle of press and protestors on the front steps of the courthouse.

This is not to say that the film explicitly attempts to make some sort of statement about gay rights or social injustice.

They do not make speeches about freedom or liberty in the face of injustice — in this case Prohibition.

But in the end, it's Dworkin's empathy that allows one to understand Diane and Love's experience and to care about what happens to them, or at least to ask if perhaps passivity in the face of social and economic injustice makes us more like Love than we would like to think.

Teach about classism, consumer culture, the dissolution of labor unions, environmental pollution, and other injustices disproportionately affecting the poor, preparing new generations of students to make a more equitable world.

It gives students the opportunity to make critical decisions about their role in dismantling acts of division and injustice.

My only complaint about Injustice is the costumes, but I have faith in NeatherRealm to make a fun game, and I like the comic so far, so if costume design is the only problem, I can't complain too much.

In fisticuffs alone Batman has just about as many or more inputs than his counterpart in Injustice: Gods Among Us, a brawler made by Netherealm.

While a lot has been said about who has the best super move in Injustice 2, Raiden makes a great case for his inclusion in that argument.

And what to make of a court opinion that awards a partial victory to these groups — relying not on a finding of environmental injustice but rather on a determination that the state of California failed to engage in a crucial economic debate about policy alternatives?

«A well - written, well - researched and potent critique... few get to the heart of the matter like Monbiot and very few write a compelling enough script to make you want to shout angry slogans about the injustices of corporate greed.»

Our opportunity here isn't only about protecting the ocean waters of America, marine life, a favorite surf break, jobs or a given beach community; it's about demanding that our government utilize the best available science and data and listen to the massive outpouring of public opposition to destructive offshore oil and gas development, to shift the tides of energy development instead away from fossil fuels and toward renewables; it's about holding our President and federal agencies accountable for decisions they make about the management of the ocean; it's about protecting the ocean and every coastline from the atrocity and injustice of offshore drilling and exploration; it's about protecting clean water, air and beaches now and for the future; it's about protecting one another, and the Earth.

Expressing emotion is generally a bad idea, for reasons including (a) it will make the addressee angry and so they will not cooperate with you, (b) it will make you look weak and (c) if you appear to insult / offend / etc the reader then the tables are turned and you become the bad guy, so nobody will care about the earlier injustice committed against you.

United States About Blog HIV / AIDS is not just a disease; it's proof positive of injustice: the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance makes human rights issues central to the AIDS response.

And finally, I'd like to propose to the Government that unless the original indigenous people of Australia are actively involved in the political, socio - economic and legal life of Australia the status quo will not change, and if the Government is thinking about changing the injustices within the country then they have to include Australians in the decision - making process, their indigenous Australians in the decision - making processes.