Sentences with phrase «unjust structures»

Teresa Godwin Phelps, Narrative Capability: Telling Stories in a Search for Justice, in Severine Deneuline et al., Transforming Unjust Structures: The Capability Approach 105 (Springer 2006); Jill J. Ramsfield, The Law as Architecture: Building Legal Documents (West Group 2000); Kate Nace Day & Russell G. Murphy, «Just Trying to Be Human in This Place»: Storytelling and Film in the First - Year Law School Classroom, 39 Stetson L. Rev. 247 (2009); Jill J. Ramsfield, Is Logic Culturally Based?

But those who led the fight were clear about this integral relation with the gospel and the transformation of unjust structures.

If service projects and institution do not lead to the removal of unjust structures, they should be viewed with suspicion.

If service projects and institutions do not become instruments for the removal of unjust structures, they should be viewed with suspicion.

For some Christians today — William Stringfellow and Daniel Berrigan are articulate spokesmen for this position — resistance to unjust structures, the principalities and powers, is a sufficient motivating principle for Christian action.

They believed that conversion to radical Christian ideals entailed repudiation of all unjust structures of government, including those which subjugated women or which countenanced the enslavement of Negroes.

Firstly, mission is a task of social commitment in which the unjust structures of our modern societies are denounced.

Prayer as practice of the presence of God; reloving of family, workmates, and church members; compassion for the oppressed and disadvantaged; unmasking of the world's claims of God's sanction for its unjust structures; integrity of mission interweaving witness, acts of mercy, and acts of justice: all are areas of continuing growth in grace as long as we live.

It also creates in us a sense of our oneness with all other people and with all life and so it inspires empathy for the poor and a concern to break down the unjust structures of society.

It is these unjust structures (as Herbert Anaya explained in chap.

They will at times refuse to cooperate with unjust structures, but they will not try to avoid the consequent penalties.

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Wake up America why we are letting Peter King and people like him to waste time and money on non issues they should be working to solve the real problems facing this country JOBS LOSSES, OUT SOURCEING, BUDGET DEFICIET, BANKS, INSURANCE COMPANIES, UN JUST FOREIGN POLICY, SOCIAL SECURITY, LABOUR UNION PROBLEMS, JOB SECURITY for those who have any jobs left, bringing our troops home from UNJUST and ILLEGAL WARS, KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE, OIL COMPANIES making billions of unjust Profit and paying millions to their CEO's, INFRA STRUCTURES ROADS and BRIDGES and so many other Real issues that they have been elected to UNJUST and ILLEGAL WARS, KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE, OIL COMPANIES making billions of unjust Profit and paying millions to their CEO's, INFRA STRUCTURES ROADS and BRIDGES and so many other Real issues that they have been elected to unjust Profit and paying millions to their CEO's, INFRA STRUCTURES ROADS and BRIDGES and so many other Real issues that they have been elected to solve.

Finally, as a last resort, it would picket, boycott, obstruct and paralyze unjust political and economic structures.

By word and sign we must witness to the principalities and powers in the affluent countries that unjust economic structures are an abomination to the Lord of the universe.

If Western Christians observe how our unjust economic structures produce suffering and starvation, they can not fail to hear a divine summons to revolution.

«No one can deny that our social and economic reality is terribly unjust and unbalanced, that change in our vitiated structures is mandatory, and that it is necessary first of all to change the mentality of our fellow citizens.»

Cultural prejudices, structures of patriarchy, economic exploitation and unjust laws and traditions are some of them.

Likewise Father Jarlot, who declares: «There are structures that are unjust in themselves, because they are serious obstacles to realization of the legitimate aspirations of millions of people and to the necessary social and economic development of their country.»

The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.

Unfortunately spirituality itself has been elaborated within the later Christian tradition very much in an individualistic manner: seeking inner purification and saving one's soul or advancing towards personal liberation, without an effort at a reform of the unjust social relationships and structures.

They are at odds with the inhuman and unjust values and structures of dominant society.

Even though orthodoxy actually contributed to unjust social structures by its neglect, it did contribute to a realistic social ethic with its doctrine of sin.

The sinful given is often imbedded in unjust or dehumanizing social structures, in prejudicial attitudes, in traditions of hostility or conflict or control.

There is the unjust distribution of goods and services whereby a relative minority of wealthy groups and ruling classes use their power and influence to perpetuate macroeconomic and political structures which exploit the labor and lives of the vast majority of the planet's populations.

Would God say, «No, I am not going to listen to the prayers of such and such a group, because they wiped out nations in my name, because they build unjust social structures in my name, because they have gone to war in my name, because they don't call me by the «right» name, or simply because their doctrines do not quite correspond to who I am»?

But where is Christian leadership in the building of a new world view about the sinfulness of multinational structures that are living off the backs of the poor by giving unjust wages and benefits but will spend 165 billion dollars of bail - out welfare for the rich in the S&L's?

But in our context today where millions of people are in hunger and live in sub-human conditions on account of the unjust socioeconomic and political structures of our country, faith in Jesus Christ would mean to identify ourselves with the struggles of the poor and the oppressed for justice and liberation.

Can you think of anything else in human history that has caused so much unnecessary human suffering as unjust economic structures?

The rejection of sin is not merely an opposition to personal sins, but also to its structural forms, namely, the unjust power structures that keep millions enslaved, hungry, and impoverished, that oppress, alienate and dehumanise God's children on earth.

It is a consequence of human injustice built into unjust social structures.

While some were still itching for a ballot box fight, others seemed resigned to absorbing unjust blows in the short term and girding for the difficult long - term task of rebuilding a societal structure that has at least partially collapsed.

At heart the apparent «implausibility» of the idea of revelation to modernity with its secularistic assumptions, is less the result of its «unscientific» appearance than the consequence of the untransformed status of our unjust social structures.

It should not only awaken the heart but also change the structures, if those structures are unjust, if they throw human beings into the mire of life.

In doing so, the magic of story - telling will bind us together, so much so that we take on the perspectives and burdens of the oppressed, subvert the unjust power structures within evangelical America and extend the kingdom of God.

Can we truly say that in a situation of poverty linked with unjust economic and political structures, justice oriented ministry should be the preponderant form of Christian mission?

They have inspired powerful movements of social protest (like Hebrew prophetism in monarchical Israel, or the bhakti movements in medieval India) which have attacked both the oppressive rigidity of the religious systems themselves, as well as of the unjust socio - economic and political structures of the societies in which these religions flourished» (Voices from the Third World, p. 153)

Forefront at the problems that shall consume Nigeria is the unjust political structure in which corenorth was assigned excess number of states and local government areas, through which it produces excess number of legislators that spurn political reforms that do not yield more political benefits for the corenorth.

AVA A gripping drama about a teenager who is suffocating under the weight of an unjust societal structure.

And he rendered the invisible visible by showing readers that there were black and brown heroes in American history and also in everyday American life, helping readers of color to see themselves in stories while also helping white readers to reckon with some of the ways we benefit from, and often fail to recognize, deeply unjust power structures.

However, unjust social structures (Evangelii Gaudium) have become an obstacle to the appropriate and sustainable organization of production and to the equitable distribution of its fruits, which are both necessary to achieve those objectives....

At the other end of the spectrum, international work was seen to be overly conceptual, alienating, dishonest and reinforcing of unjust power structures.

We know that climate change and unsustainable and unjust social and economic structures are painful in the immediate, but we also know that these untenable ways of living can be transformed and that a more wholesome, abundant, interconnected, and enjoyable future is already being created.

The market has become resilient to falsified information and unjust analysis from financial analysts and bankers with the lack of knowledge in the structure of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

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The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,