Sentences with phrase «of victim of injustice»

Yes I am a family member of a victim of injustice, and if questionable police shootings, misconduct, and brutality were not investigated fully and fairly on a local level by Westchester County's top law enforcement officer why should the people of Westchester County or New York State believe that anything different will take place on an appellate level?

Jesus, then, was a particular kind of victim of injustice.

Not exact matches

Donors can give and raise money from friends for a particular person, group of individuals or victims of some injustice.

Obviously, there's a major difference between someone who's been the victim of abuse or an injustice than someone who got their feelings hurt over not being selected for leadership position or another, relatively trivial transgression.

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?

A Christian who campaigns on behalf of rape victims has criticised the Parole Board's decision to release a serial sex offender from prison, calling it an «injustice».

I hold that in every situation of injustice and oppression, the Christian — who can not deal with it by violence — must make himself completely a part of it as representative of the victims.

Nor is it possible to prevent occasions from arising which will provide plausible opportunities for violent action on the part of a state or a people that feels itself the victim of injustice.

who innocently suffers the consequences of other people's injustices, and who as the creative Word of God has the power and authority to identify with every victim of injustice and, as the one who suffers at our hands, grants us absolution from our evil.

And my anger at everything unethical and dishonest makes it that much more difficult to express myself in an empathetic manner to those who I view as brainwashed victims and brainwashed perpetrators of injustice, criminal and unethical behavior, etc..

If the Church wants to reach young people, we must stand in solidarity with victims of racial injustice

In dialectically articulating our solidarity with the victims of injustice, liberation theologians provide the theological dimensions of a much larger contemporary n7lOvement among scientists, technologists and scholars.

However, the New Thought emphasis on consciousness as the determinant of lived conditions can lead to a simplistic «blame the victim» type attitude regarding lack, limitation, and even social injustice.

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

While we all know painful stories of friends and family who were victims of injustice, spiritual abuse, and unhealthy environments, it is possible to thrive as we use our gifts to serve Jesus and bless others.

This is a double injustice: they are victims of the oppression of an unjust economic order or an unjust political distribution of power, and at the same time they are deprived of the knowledge of God's special care for them.

I might say some things differently today, but I would still hold to the basic principle that an important aspect of Christian social responsibility is the organization politically of the victims of social injustice so that they can use their power to change conditions.

We who claim to be his disciples are obliged to offer leadership in release to captives who are victims of the gross injustices in America's drug laws.

For an agonizingly long time, such victims of torture and gross injustice had no access to justice.

It asserts that some people are legitimate victims and others legitimate victimizers; it reinforces the worst of our society's hierarchies of inequality and injustice.

Socrates» and Jesus» deaths differed from those of countless victims of injustice because of the way they conducted themselves.

If we're upset over some victims of gun violence but not others, grieved by some untimely deaths but not others, worried about some missing children but not others — we aren't concerned with the injustices at hand.

One must resolve, and, as the Pope says, publicly make manifest one's resolve, to continue working for the full equal protection of the unborn and other victims of legal injustice.

On Ash Wednesday, as the people come up to receive the ashes, they hear the words: «Polvo eres The ashes of the beginning of Lent are a curious and mysterious religious expression of the Mexican tradition which finds its full socio - religious meaning when coupled with the Holy Water which is blessed during the Easter Vigil — when, through God's power, justice triumphed over injustice in the resurrection of the innocent victim from the death inflicted upon him by the unjust «justice» of this world.

though i wonder whether sometimes injustice, prejudice, discontent etc. are most easily recognised when you feel like you are the victim of them yourself.

For instance he talkes about how important justice is... and yet works to keep those in the church responsible for injustice insultated to the benefit of the church, over victims of crimes.

The prime minister said he was «profoundly sorry» for the «double injustice» which had occurred after revealing how the reputations of the victims had been muddied by completely unjustified accusations of hooliganism.

At the most fundamental level, Butt's argument from responsibility implies that every day, irrespective of whether a victim asks, when we fail to fulfill rectificatory duties to a victim of colonization or their offspring, this injustice implicates society anew, thereby «covering», implicating, or including the new members of that society who have failed to rectify for the past injustice.

He was the source for the Sun's headline «The Truth», which sought to blame the crowd rather than the policing of the event for the deaths and led to what prime minister David Cameron described as a «double injustice» suffered by the victims» families.

The honest legal practitioners who are the victims of these crimes and injustices have a duty to expose those tarnishing the image of the rest of us!

While the speech was undoubtedly lengthy and did contain some words of praise for this most «noble» of professions, its real agenda was buried within the rhetoric, «idealistic» students being encouraged by leftist academics to view the people they work with as «victims of social injustice» who are to be pandered to.

No victim should be denied justice because of outdated law and this injustice needs to be fixed.

The Niger Delta in general, and Urhobo land specifically are victims of injustice in Nigeria.

But kids have one big leg up on their ape cousins: They're much more likely to help victims of injustice, according to a new study.

Pioneering scientist, social activist, humanitarian — Mary - Claire King is also foremost a free spirit who for over four decades has marched to the beat of her own drummer, animated by the impulse to solve iconic scientific puzzles, a passion for victims of disease and social injustice, and a warm humility that belies her profound impacts on science, on medicine, and on society.

From the beginning, there involvement in the crime was called into question, even by the victims families, who saw the injustice of the whole procedure first hand.

Three Billboards tells the world of the injustices victims of sexual abuse face as they navigate the criminal justice system, criticizing police handling of sex crimes and ending without closure.

She was not the only victim of this injustice.

The one point on which the film seems certain is that the Three are innocent victims of injustice, guilty of nothing worse than being stupid teenagers and not fitting in.

No longer the little victim we know from the past, this gal saves the family farm, rights the injustices of the kingdom and wins the prince's heart!

All AMISOM personnel, including locally recruited Somalis, are immune from local legal processes in Somalia for any acts they perform in their official capacity, Don't you think this is injustice to the victims of sexual violence since perpetrators can't be prosecuted in Somali courts or even in AMISOM run military courts in Mogadishu.

It would not, so we are really just exacerbating the deeper tragedies of our society and distracting everyone with test scores and beating up on the victims of poverty, racism, and injustice.

Righteous indignation is a natural response to injustice, but it's ineffective and it can slide all too easily into a victim mentality and excessive talk of «what they are doing to us.»

Leighton Andrews said a review had persuaded him hundreds of pupils had been the victims of an «injustice», a decision welcomed by teaching unions.

Leighton Andrews says hundreds of pupils had been the victims of an «injustice» after receiving lower grades than expected.

Bowden writes with red - hot lyricism and intellectual intensity about life along the Mexican border, profiling outcasts and criminals; victims of racism, injustice, and violence; and the legal system that fails them, all the while sharing his rage and his compassion.

Although Taibbi recognizes that Garner had his flaws, he pushes beyond them to compile a rich, nuanced depiction of a devoted family man who became yet another victim of bad luck, unforgiving environmental circumstances and the racially fueled injustices of the country's police forces.

The crime and cruelty of dogfighting was compounded by the cruel injustice of killing the victims.

As if that weren't enough injustice, an enraged Athena proceeded to punish Medusa in what might possibly be the most horrifying example of victim blaming — she transformed Medusa's hair into a tangle of venomous serpents and made her face so terrible, it turned all onlookers into stone.

Another such print, Injustice Case (1970)-- currently on show at Tate Modern's Soul of a Nation — shows the tied - up African - American victim of a miscarriage of justice ironically framed with the stars and stripes.