Sentences with phrase «of economic injustice»

What's not everywhere, but should be, is a clear - headed debate about the special stake that climate activists have in the new politics of economic injustice.

What that means is you've had 45 years of economic injustice where the poor were getting poorer, while everyone else was moving up.

In sum, we can speak of (a) a relation to nature — the animal kingdom, the calming of a storm, rain and fruitfulness of the land; (b) the social and political community — the overcoming of economic injustice, oppression, cheating or bribing, conflict and lack of compassion; (c) the wellbeing of persons in the community — an aspect assumed in the critique of things that hinder it (covetousness, anger, jealousy) and depicted as family and communal harmony.

Should not conservatives lead the denunciation of economic injustice in places like South Korea and Central America?

This point is just as relevant, of course, to any type of self - destructive behavior, or to acts of economic injustice, as it is to homosexual practice.

It would call upon politicians and businesspeople to repent of their involvement in the institutionalized sin of economic injustice.

For example, writing as he did in the midst of the depression (1935), Calhoun discusses the problem of revolutionary violence as a means to correction of economic injustices.

Not exact matches

The result: Now down to representing only 7 % of private - sector workers, America's unions and collective bargaining are no longer able to provide workers the power they need to redress workplace injustices or achieve a fair share of the economic growth they help generate.

I think a lot of Egypts turmoil is economic injustice

People like Santorum remind me of the Pharasees who were careful to show up in the temple full of pride and self righteous indignation for anyone who dared to question their rigid ideology yet never took one step towards bettering conditions in their society or spoke out against social and economic injustice.

If it is the task of liberation theology to speak from the point of view of the victims of social and economic injustice, what is the appropriate response of those theologians in the oppressor community who hear and want to support the aspirations of the oppressed?

What is discouraging is to note how little free trade has yet been demystified and how little connection has been made in people's minds between free trade and the economic injustices of which they are painfully conscious.

Up until then, despite my painful awareness of the many injustices in global society and the responsibility of the United States for some of them, I had assumed that the global movement which had eventuated in independence for so many countries was leading to their economic development also.

To hear the voices protesting the structural injustices of the current economic system; 2.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

But it never affects the roots of injustice — social structures, the bases of an economic system, the foundations of a society.

The injustice Russians witnessed came to be associated with Western economic models and was seen to reveal the falsehood of Western values.

If we are giving significantly of our own money to combat hunger or poverty or injustice we are very likely to become interested enough in these efforts to invest some time and energy in them, to work with individuals and to become involved in policy debates and to confront the economic system.

It's also a sign of weak faith and the hypocrisy that pervades most organized religion that preachers fear alienating their source of income by preaching on economic injustice but are real warriors when it comes to bashing gays.

While expressing skepticism about the import of economic reforms on the situation of poverty and injustice, the President observed that, `' the three - way fast lanes of liberalization, privatization and globalization must provide safe pedestrian crossing for the unempowered.

For instance, in its first years, liberation theology was conceived as (second - order) reflection and discourse based on a (first - order) praxis of liberation from oppression, especially from social, economic and political injustice.

Dewey, who died in 1952 after reigning for more than fifty years as America's most influential public philosopher and educator, appreciated that the churches had not gone out of business, and that they could even be useful in promoting peace, fighting economic injustice, and, more generally, in «stimulating action» for what he called «a divine kingdom on earth.»

It seems indifferent to the radical distinction between conventional religion — which throws the aura of sanctity on contemporary public policy, whether morally inferior or outrageously unjust — and radical religious protest — which subjects all historical reality (including economic, social and radical injustice) to the «word of the Lord,» i.e., absolute standards of justice.

But neither do we have the reign of God for the redemption of society when Christians are unconcerned about the plight of their fellow men, or when such giant evils as war, race discrimination, alcoholism, economic injustice, hunger and homelessness, and the shattering of family life go unchallenged.

The Church has always felt that economic injustice occurrs due to the lack of free markets worldwide as the world's most poor live in socialist countries.

The stewardship approach, with its mandate of thrift within the present system, rather than a recognition of that system's injustice, lacks a vision of a new and different economic order.

Exposure to the poverty of India and other parts of the world have made many people aware of the deep economic injustices of the world and uneasy with lavish displays of luxury.

In this context of increasing injustices in the world, the religions could be a light to make us all aware of the false values of capitalistic globalization that can not bring happiness and peace to persons or a lasting solution to our social and economic problems.

We usually have not understood that Amos concerns are not with incidental acts of injustice, but with the systematic economic distortion in which the royal - urban managers participate.4

At the same time that ministers were trying to relate Christianity to the crisis of the modern economic injustice, there were others busily engaged in attacking all who deviated from what they conceived to be the fundamentals of Christianity.

Just as the Church never failed in its works of charity, so it was never completely blind to the social evils and economic injustice of the day.

According to the basic church - growth approach, new believers can come to Christ without knowing that they are called to resist racism, economic injustice, and the principalities and powers of this age.

They will follow in the tradition of the Hebrew prophets: feeding the poor, caring for widows and orphans, attacking economic systems that produce injustice.

Political, ethnic and religious strife, social and economic injustice, and environmental degradation put in jeopardy the very future of life on Earth.

It is important for Christians to remember that every structure of justice, as embodied in political and economic institutions, (a) contains elements of injustice that stand in contradiction to the law of love; (b) contains higher possibilities of justice that must be realized in terms of institutions and structures; and (c) that it must be supplemented by the graces of individual and personal generosity and mercy.

The poetic spirit of Washington Gladden was violated by injustice and economic imbalance; the ugliness and stench of poverty and disease stirred to action beauty - loving Walter Rauschenbusch.

In spite of the heroic renunciation of the religious orders they live in the world, depend upon it, and become entangled with its economic and political injustices.13 What actually takes place in the Catholic attempt to meet the relativities of moral choices is a continuous compromise with principles to fit situations.

Any condition of social injustice, economic deprivation, political tyranny, or racial discrimination has a deleterious effect on the self - esteem of the victims.

What of the great injustices in society, in economic life, in politics?

It is an opiate which helps us ignore the massive social injustices and economic inequalities which block the fulfillment of the God - given potentialities of millions of our brothers and sisters on Spaceship Earth.

Daughters of Hope not only reduces poverty and injustice, but gives dignity, freedom, and hope to women who have been caught up in the cycle of economic and social oppression.

We call out the economic injustices, the educational inequalities, the maternal mortality, patriarchy, movements designed to baptize inequality in sacred language, the forced prostitution, the sex trafficking, all of the countless ways that the image of God in women is abused and mistreated and broken or diminished.

By and large, great advances have been made in making the church more sensitive to the injustice in our midst, more imaginative in proposing responsible solutions to social and economic disorder, and more democratic in the structures of decision making.

They have not offered ideas; rather they remain in a very dated liberal, statist view concerning economic problems and injustice, following the line of thinking of the late John A. Ryan, «The Right Reverend New Dealer.»

On the other hand, even when leaders are committed to seeking social justice, they have not been able to sustain a legitimate critique of poverty and injustice in America because the family ideals of the American Dream continue to be linked to democratic values and economic stability.

The injustice built into global economic relations that exploit sectors of human race by color and gender disputes the integrity of humanity.

and economic injustice («injustices abound and growing numbers of people are deprived of basic human rights and considered expendable»).

And while racial prejudice creates the most obvious form of discrimination, a Christian conscience must be on guard also against economic injustices caused or perpetuated by family status, social stratification, political «pull,» or even by church connections.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

Cobb thinks the pursuit of continued economic growth within an integrated, liberalizing, market - based global economy will lead to increased social injustice and ecological destruction.