Sentences with phrase «suffered injustice»

The award «recognizes the work of an attorney or team of attorneys working on behalf of individuals and groups that have suffered injustice and harmful abuse.»

The Erlich Law Office proudly represents individuals who have suffered injustice at the hands of law enforcement officers and other state actors.

Roberts takes a more subtle approach by lining up the key facts and applicable law in such a way that we can only draw the inference that the client suffered an injustice.

Our leading team of lawyers are at the forefront of providing legal advice and representation for those who have suffered injustice following court proceedings.

Harry Thompson founded Thompsons in 1921 with a vision to fight social inequality and help those who had suffered injustice.

Have Palestinians suffered injustice under the Israeli regime?

Their sense of having suffered injustice at our hands, along with a growing sense of autonomy and dignity among Latin American nations in general, seems to have been a significant element in our decision.

In Romans 12 - 13, Paul's exhortation to suffer injustice without vengeance is rooted not only in hope for divine vengeance but in an expectation that wrongs will be avenged by civil powers.

Socrates further concluded that it was better to suffer than to inflict injustice, for one might suffer injustice without loss of the intrinsic excellence of the soul, whereas the infliction of injustice was precisely the destruction of the soul's inherent goodness.

I Peter doesn't leave us to suffer injustice passively but points us to Jesus, whose suffering and death were transformed into resurrection.

There is no political movement in which innocent people do not suffer injustice.

I think it's safe to assume that the overwhelming majority of those who have devoted their time and money to trying to help families suffering injustice have done so out of compassion and a sincere desire to help.

What matters is that we are called to defend those who suffer injustice especially when the law is perverted to commit injustice.

A wrathful man, for example, can not understand that it is better for him to suffer injustice than to inflict it.

Socrates» statements about suffering injustice rather than inflicting injustice, Jesus» teachings and Paul's elaborations, and Luther's classic description of the power of the Christian life, to name but a few, are sufficient testimony for those who have the eyes and hearts to see.

I share Father Berrigan's repugnance toward those in high intellectual and religious places who apologize for or ignore gross historical evil, and I have insisted that Auschwitz bears a commandment to Jews also not to destroy their fellow human beings, that the necessity for Jewish survival, illuminated and commanded by the Holocaust, can not justify the principle that it is better to do than to suffer injustice — that this goes completely counter to the spirit and teaching of the Jewish religio - ethical tradition.

If, however, neither side accepts instruction and you start to fight with each other — may God prevent it — I hope that neither side will be called Christian... Your declaration that you teach and live according to the Gospel is not true... You want power and wealth so that you will not suffer injustice... The Gospel however... speaks of suffering, injustice, the cross, patience, and contempt for this life and temporal wealth... You are only trying to give your unevangelical and unchristian enterprise an evangelical appearance.

If such is the case, what God expects from those who suffer injustice is not that they seek to change the existing order, but rather that they accept it with resignation.

On the other hand, for the critics of ISDS the fact that individual investors may suffer injustice in the internal market is a minor problem in light of their understanding of the systemic implications of investment treaties, with the arguments about «regulatory chill» and protection of narrow corporate interests being central in this respect.

The procedure is summary and the judge's findings of fact are admissible provided that the non-party was sufficiently connected with the proceedings so as not to suffer any injustice.

v. Goldfields [9] stated that the test to be applied in each case was whether the defendant would suffer injustice if the action was heard in the court where he did not reside or carry on business.

Personally I feel deep sorrow for those of my fellow Australians who suffered injustices under the practices of past generations towards indigenous people.

The doctrine of terra nullius for instance denied indigenous land rights while indigenous peoples suffered injustices under many practices that past generations were involved.

Not exact matches

He was constantly thinking about financial issues, from the operational to the philosophical: how to finance his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and how to right the economic injustices suffered by the dispossessed throughout the country.

They are criminal acts perpetrated primarily, though not exclusively, against girls and women who have to spend years afterward keeping their secrets quiet, hoping that eventually someone will help them find the words to describe the injustices they've suffered.

«Blacks suffered unspeakable horrors and injustices prior to the Civil Rights» movements simply because of the color of their skin»

Casual indifference towards suffering and injustice stopped being fashionable in early high school.

Most of the christians believe that the pain, suffering and injustice in this life will be taken care of in the next.

Jesus proclaimed he had come to save the soul and rescue the suffering from institutionalized injustice.

Like these evangelicals, who point to genuine hardships suffered by Palestinians under occupation, those church activists cited often genuine injustices by the U.S. and its allies in their struggle against the Soviet Bloc.

«If we look at the Scriptures, we see a God who weeps with those going through pain, who is compassionate for those who suffer and condemns those who do injustice,» Reese said

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power can not be the work of a good God.»

Either one suffers with God, which doesn't make suffering worthwhile: or one ignores suffering and injustice in the hope of a spiritual salvation.

He deliberately chose to suffer in order to be truly one with humanity in all its suffering, including the suffering of injustice.

Our society is filled with those suffering from cancer and other incurable diseases as well as from mental disorders, child abuse and economic injustice.

Millions of Chinese will testify to the gross injustices they suffered under the cultural revolution, which was the most serious effort thus far to make of China a radically socialist society.

Its leaders are committed to making those changes that are needed to overcome the age - old injustices suffered by the peasants.

First you suffer this great injustice and now squirrels are CHEWING HOLES IN YOUR HOUSE, but you take a lesson from it and keep going.

the children hurt by these men and the many others not reported don't deserve to suffer with these injustices because the church doesn't want to face the fact that there is a problem.

Caritas Internationalis president Cardinal Luis Tagle said: «The poor are suffering greatly from the climate crisis and fossil fuels are among the main drivers of this injustice.

Whether the innocent suffer because of natural disasters (like earthquakes) or because the consequences of human folly and injustice (like wars and revolutions) do not fall only on the guilty, the burden of suffering is so heavy that praising God seems not only out of the question but also a violation of our moral sense.

Rich is better than hungry, but injustice may create a supportive community among victims while exploiters suffer anomie.

For the child of rape who struggles to forgive, the bad news is that she suffered a terrible injustice; the good news is that Jesus did too and he wants to fellowship with her in her suffering.

As a rule, if someone in a position of power is responsible for the suffering of an upright and innocent person this would seem to provide a reasonable ground for accusing that someone of injustice.

We must accept injustice ourselves, but we can neither require others to bear patiently nor serve as example for them, nor yet bear their suffering for them.

At the very moment they experience the utter bleakness of abandonment, Powers's favored characters glimpse some benign possibility built into the universe, itself vulnerable, faintly but unmistakably detectable amid suffering and injustice.»

An understanding of God characteristically is ideological in this way when it suggests that the injustice from which some suffer and others benefit is not evil at all but rather is divinely sanctioned.

The next problem which must be squarely faced is the apparent flagrant injustice in the distribution of suffering.

Christians will be sufficiently and completely present in the world if they suffer with those sufferers the one way of salvation, if they bear witness before Gods and man to the consequences of injustice and the proclamation of love.

There is an apparent flagrant injustice in the distribution of suffering.