Sentences with phrase «struggles for social justice»

The stories that I am about to share, as I mentioned earlier, demonstrate greatness in women's struggles for social justice and the rights of their people.

In drawings, video installations, artist books and photography, Drake has exposed the emotions and realities of individuals and their struggles for social justice and equity.

It is as if nobody should know nor care about the real fights and struggles for social justice that some of our most dedicated elected officials take on in Albany to produce very good legislation and effectively represent their constituents.

Our Christian contributions to the struggles for social justice make use of the broad social resources of our institutions and our thought.

«They wanted the struggle for social justice to be the country's animating principle, the nation's soul.»

It sees the left's struggle for social justice as mere trouble making, as utopian foolishness.

In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx: Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice.

The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.

Women who participated in the struggle for social justice found themselves exploited by the men with whom they shared the struggle.

Meanwhile, liberation theologians have protested that postliberal theology is more concerned with Christian catechesis, formation and liturgy than with the struggle for social justice.

How to keep the conflict in any struggle for social justice and for giving love in creative tension?

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

Many rural pastors and Jesuit priests joined the peasant's struggle for social justice.

This confession, rooted in the ancient piety and worship of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church and nourished in the ecumenical movement, underlies an ethic of profound involvement in the struggle for social justice, profound realism about the powers of this world including those which possess the righteous, and a profound hope which is never satisfied by the achievements of this world.

Where these movements of eco-justice stand in isolation from the struggle against «capitalist infringements of communal rights to natural resources», that is, from the struggle for social justice, they are likely to be of a purely middle class character and tend to get coopted by the ideology of market economy.

But education reform must be considered as part of a larger struggle for social justice.

Keeping the Struggle Alive illustrates how the concepts of democracy, participation, community, and the struggle for social justice can animate the classroom and engage learners.»

His friends describe him as «a gentle warrior in our struggle for social justice.»

The role played by surveillance culture in the struggle for social justice frames changing and prevailing ideas about race, justice, and freedom in America.

Maguire's aesthetic sensibility and practice can be traced back to his involvement in the struggle for social justice during the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.

Rhode adopts the role of trickster enamored with the fragmentary transcendence offered by illusion; such sleights of hand are linked to the artist's deeply personal meditation on the slippery struggle for social justice within his native country.

, held on Sunday (11) at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, brought together activists and academics from more than 20 social movements, organizations and trade unions to discuss some of the central themes of the struggle for social justice in combating climate change.

As long - time community activists have explained, the struggle for social justice is one that must be characterized by patience and a willingness to see small victories in a slow journey full of setbacks.

Lawyers who subject their feelings to a critical reading may thus find that clients do not seek rescuing, but, in fact, have actively resisted oppressive structures and have developed many tactics, goals, and alliances with larger communities that can be engaged in the struggle for social justice.

But for my people and me, the struggle for social justice and recognition will go beyond our lifetimes.

Not exact matches

The confines of individualism, the closed world of consumption, the supremacy of productivism - and, for many, an obsessive struggle for sheer daily survival obscure humanity's larger objectives: the right to live liberated from oppression and exploitation, the right to equal opportunities, social justice, peace, spiritual fulfillment and solidarity.

He also identified himself with the struggle for human dignity and freedom and so attracts those Christians who are committed to agencies for the relief of poverty and campaigns for world - wide social and economic justice.

To be free of ideological captivity is to «join the community of struggle,» to oppose racism and sexism, to fight for human rights and women's ordination, to engage in social action, to envision «holiness as justice,» and to develop nonsexist language and imagery in order to «empower» and free the congregation to engage in the «struggle for liberation.»

On the whole the Niebuhrian generation of theologians were far less involved in struggles for justice than had been either Niebuhr himself or the social gospel writers he criticized.

The missionary enterprise has flowed into the struggle for decolonialization and social justice.

On the other hand, the sectarian churches are not powerful and resourceful enough to maintain a Christian witness in the struggle for justice in the social situation.

Original sin and the paradox of grace are as true expressions of social life and the struggle for justice as they are of the life of the individual.

I think there is truth here in that the poor, the black, and the oppressed generally are occupied — and rightly so — with a most urgent social struggle for simple justice.

To be a light is to follow this God, struggling to bring about social justice in our society, to safeguard human rights and to work for peace and reconciliation.

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

In a brief survey I conducted in some areas in Kerala I came to know that several of them, while retaining a nominal membership in the Church, were committed to the Communist parties in their struggle for social and economic justice.

In this situation, the awakened tribal people of Chotanagpur have a special role, not only to fight for their political autonomy within the unity of the nation, but also to affirm their solidarity with all their bellow - victims of the lopsided processes of modernization in their struggle for political and social justice.

(2) The «utopia» of peace and justice (i.e., the expectation of «a new age») is not an ideal construction from which certain consequences are derived for specific situations but, on the contrary, it is the coming together in a vision of the specific struggle of the community to solve the conflicts, contradictions and difficulties that they find in everyday life — political, social, religious, economic.

The real struggle in all religious communities is for spiritual reformation opening themselves to enter into dialogue with other religions and with secular humanist ideologies regarding the nature and rights of the human person and the meaning of social justice enabling to build together a new spiritually - oriented humanism and a more humane society.

Dr. Thomas proposes a new ideology of struggle for both social and ecological justice — a spiritual framework for a post modern holistic humanism based on an understanding of Christ as the Suffering Servant.

And the church must be prepared to stand by the people when they struggle for an economy that gives priority to eco-justice and social justice rather than economic growth through trans - national high technology.

It further states that In the Third World, where all religions together face the challenges of enslaving social and cultural systems and the need to struggle for justice, religions should meet each other, exploring and sharing their liberative elements.

«We shall not be able to achieve social justice without justice for natural environment; we shall not be able to achieve justice for nature without social justice» (Moltmann).2 Several dimensions of this echo - justice are now brought to the fore though the experience of the struggle of the marginalised.

His election is not a tragedy, but a dramatic stage in the struggle of the oppressed for dignity, recognition and social justice.

Trump may have just fired the starting shot of the political struggle to come, by inadvertently personifying the common foe for those struggling for dignity and social justice.

From activists for social and environmental justice, to advocates for affordable housing and alternative transportation, to leaders in the struggle for immigrants» rights and civil rights, NKD is building a progressive Brooklyn alliance.

Whereas, we can take pride in the progress our state and nation have made in reinforcing women's rights over the decades and recognize that we have not yet crossed all thresholds to fulfilling our mission and quest for true equality; today we celebrate the economic, social, and political accomplishments of women, we honor the courageous women who have made extraordinary contributions to their countries and communities, and we pause to remember the struggles waged by generations of women who have led the fight for equality and justice; and

The ITU jointly struggles with other Iraqi progressive and patriotic forces for peace, democracy and social justice and for an end to the onslaught of sectarianism and terrorism that has brought widespread corruption, mass death, destruction and mayhem.

Last week he pledged that Solidarity would «be offering solidarity to working people in struggle, to those fighting for an independent socialist Scotland, solidarity to all those opposing Blair and Bush's illegal wars, to all those fighting for social justice and an end to poverty and discrimination».

As part of the first - of - its - kind county / school collaboration, local leaders opened the Center for Safe and Healthy Youth, a one - stop location for needs assessment, as well as school support, mental health and social services and juvenile justice - related services for struggling youngsters in Rockland County, ages 10 to 18.