Sentences with phrase «serving justice and equality»

Is the mainline really serving justice and equality, or is it serving the functional demands and leveling universalism of a technologically driven market economy?

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God intended equality among men; but «private property, slavery, imperialism, the State itself, appear in post-Fall society as regulations of God to preserve nature, which is always being disrupted by sin».26 Justice thus appears as the rough, necessary, coerced order of human societies which is not wholly antithetical to love, since it serves the purpose of God in the creation and history.

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.

Passionate around issues of opportunity and equality for women and girls, she has worked on these issues for private companies and the World Bank, and served on various non-profit Boards, including, currently on the Board and Executive Committee of the Tahirih Justice Center, a national leader protecting immigrant women and girls fleeing violence.

When I served as student body president at AU and began working on the issues I had always cared about — gender equity, racial justice, opportunity regardless of economic background, and, yes, LGBTQ equality — it became clear that making a difference in the world wouldn't diminish or dilute my own pain and incompleteness.

The jersey design also features a wreath on the neckline, which represents the wreath that hangs where MLK was assassinated and serves as a reminder of the sacrifice that he made for social justice and equality.

This is further punctuated by the faceless apparitions surrounding him, who act as metaphor for the unknown fighters for justice and equality, including the Black women who served as the backbone of the movement through their community work.

In my opinion, her biggest achievement has been her ability, despite climbing the legal echelons to success, to maintain her initial focus, which was the promotion of human rights, social justice, the right to equality and her commitment to serve her community.

Cristina Figueroa has a personal connection to the mission of JTB and wholeheartedly believes that those in the legal field, as advocates of justice and equality, should be demographically representative of the population they serve.

She served on the national task force on gender equality in the legal profession with former Supreme Court justice Bertha Wilson and also worked for five years on a CIDA - funded development project to introduce civil legal aid to rural China.

An organization that holds a core commitment to equality, social responsibility and justice with attention to marginalized and underserved groups, and fosters policies that support the welfare of families and children and serves as a context for all concerned with the health of the family;

Thus, it is accepted that for justice to be served there must be an element of substantive equality, and that to rely on formal equality is to deny justice.18 As Professor Peter Bailey has pointed out, «adopting the principle of substantive equality leads to difficult value judgements and distinctions, but in the interests of justice and human rights, there is no escape from this course.»