Sentences with phrase «over injustice»

Back then, though, I railed at my husband for weeks over the injustice of it all.

I would agree with St. Augustine that an unjust law is no law at all... One who breaks an unjust law must do it openly, lovingly... I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.»

We as a society have much work to do to promote Innocence over Injustice.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

I remember them being shocked that I would complain over this injustice, because while they saw a dollar as much more valuable than a piece of gum, I didn't.

Utah politicians have made hay for decades by howling over the injustice, yet their actions and those of Congress have validated the monument in several concrete ways that have proven enormously beneficial to Utah.

Henson's explosion over the injustice of her half - mile trek to the NASA campus» only colored ladies room is worth the price of admission alone, but the soundtrack featuring Monae, Pharrell Williams, Lalah Hathaway, Miles Davis and Ray Charles also provides plenty of reasons to cheer.

The FA - PGMO anti Wenger Arsenal manage team PL Title win in 14 seasons campaign has led to the FA enforcing the no any anti-PGMO referring comment by PL club managers, players and the media rule been put in place by the FA particularly to strengthen the PGMO appointed match officiating officials to stop an Arsene Wenger manage team from winning the PL Title again after the invincibles team should have been the fight the anti Wenger Arsenal fans and the media ought to have fought against the FA - PGMO to stop them in their clandestine policy to stop Arsenal if the media and the Arsenal AAA fans are interested to see justice prevails over injustice.

«None of the forms of protest over injustice and inequality have been deemed acceptable,» Richmond said.

Toronto fans merit such congenial treatment; they have been grumping for nearly eight years over the injustice of archrival Montreal having a major league baseball team when they did not.

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.

We accept these victories over injustice in former days as assumptions of the position of the Church in our own day; it is harder to see in our contemporary scene just what it is that the Church is called upon to do.

And I am very concerned about people who don't get «angry» over the injustice done to others.

To him, «real mourners grieve over injustice in God's world.

But I do remember that we exchanged complaints, barely restraining the passion over the injustice we each believed we had suffered from each other.

Its absence does not mean that process theologians lack a strong preference for justice over injustice.

Since when does knowing something will happen mean that you have no right to appeal or voice your opinion over the injustice?

Harry's last few years were spent fighting the UK government over an injustice that hits more than half a million British pensioners.

Our brothers and sisters of color are constantly mourning over these injustices.

How can a God that is in control of everything as you claim be «furious» over injustices in this world?

Nowadays a socially liberal student, outraged over the injustices of our society and the legitimating role the churches play in them, charges into a pastorate armed with an activist gospel.

The prime minister has apologised and pledged to pay compensation in an attempt to end the row over the injustices meted out to children of Windrush - era migrants who had been unable to produce the documents demanded by the Home Office to establish their right to remain.

Not exact matches

«The party is united around our economic strategy, united around our education ideas, united around our NHS strategy, united around the inequality and injustice that exists in Britain, and now that this election is over, the party has an opportunity to come together and get that message out.

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.

But in the end she embraces public displays against injustice, and it's hard to see any difference in the latter over the former ones, except for the causes themselves.

All Christians can be shocked by the vitriol of sixteenth - century theological disagreements, but no one should be shocked by Luther's anger over corruption, abuse, and injustice.

White supremacy ruled over our nation and churches did nothing to stop the vast injustice.

Some Christians believe their faith must involve «turning over tables» and political action to address social injustice.

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.

If I am going to be a man of God who stands in the face of injustice, then I must also stand in the face of injustice over how some of our sisters are being treated by some of our favorite athletes.

Injustices all over the world and in our own circles are believed to have the blessing of something.

For example, many blacks have spoken out about ongoing racial injustice in the U.S., saying that Ferguson could happen and does happen all over America.

In The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, Randall Robinson contends that slavery's legacy of injustice and disadvantage is «structural,» continuing to benefit whites «whose assets piled up like fattening snowballs over three and a half centuries.»

When injustice is perpetrated against an entire group, when it persists over a long period and its effects permeate society, no one is untouched.

Over the past several weeks, many of these injustices that are generally easy to avoid thinking about and dealing with, have become unavoidable.

Toby writes, speaks, and facilitates the formation of faith leaders around civic engagement over ever - present matters of injustice and inequality in our society.

Over the last few years, famed pastor and author John Piper has taken an interest in racial injustice as part of his overall Gospel message.

Obviously when an injustice occurs to anyone anywhere we must go to war over it.

Yet being a utilitarian (not to mention a psychopath) he senses no injustice, because his actions benefited the many over the one.

For the intrinsic relations between reason and justice, the praxis of reason with its priority of contextual understanding over conceptual expression, means that the universality of solidarity, or inclusive wholeness, is a universality that is mediated through the particularity of local and communal struggles to transcend injustice.

The Ukrainian Catholic Church recovered its legal status, leading to bitter fights with the Russian Orthodox Church over historical injustices and control of parishes and monasteries.

There are no available criteria of justice or injustice when it comes to the massive migrations of peoples over the centuries — whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, or the Americas.

But, how could a loving almighty God allow the people he supposedly «loves» to bear such atrocities and injustices all over the world?

But instead of vengeful invective, over the following minutes, days and years he spoke simple, principled sense, refusing to give up the struggle, armed if necessary, against injustice until Apartheid was dismantled, but articulating a sense of place for all races in South Africa.

He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

Communist evil, Niebuhr said, resulted from its monopoly of power (absolute power over other men producing evils worse than injustice), its utopianism (attribution of the source of evil to something outside man — private property), its faith in revolution (a substitute religion), and its dogmatism (ideology masquerading as science).

In every issue of justice or injustice some element of «belonging» or possession is involved — whether of material goods, status and prestige, power over another, personal opportunity, or any other of life's many intangibles.

Laws really mean nothing, revealing injustice to the masses does work over time, history proves that, its just much to slow for folks like you and me.

A minister asked during a workshop: «With the moral morass of our society, the stinking injustice at home, and the poverty and hunger all over the world, how can we spend time enriching marriages?»

Instead of pretending injustice doesn't exist or opining that «they should just get over it already» or paying lip service to «things are so much better now,» there is something spiritual and powerful to repentance, confession, and seeking forgiveness as individuals, religious communities, and a nation.