Sentences with phrase «social iniquities»

By joining a volunteer service and being posted to Nigeria, his eyes were further opened to social iniquities, and after attending teacher's college, he brings his love of hawks and nature to environmental studies.

He attacked its misuse of prerogative, denounced its social iniquities, vigorously championed the cause of the impoverished, and became in consequence an object of hostility and ridicule.

Nevertheless, this coming reign of God involved the ending of social wrongs, and it is of importance to note that, so far as the records reveal, Jesus» concern about social iniquities always sprang from his indignant perception of their ill effect on individuals.

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If the social group as a whole was sunk in iniquity, the reason lay deep in the quality of the group's constituent individuals — «The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?»

Although Whitehead seems to reject the Marxist idea of the class war (AI 35), he knew that society built on iniquity resulted either in its self - destruction or a correction built on the insertion of some new theory into the social structure (AI 14).

Granted the idea of social solidarity so complete that all members of a clan, tribe, or nation may justly be punished for what any member does, and one black sheep can furnish iniquity enough to satisfy the requirements of explanation when tragedy befalls the group.