social-justice

Christian hope frees us to act hopefully in the world. It enables us to act humbly and patiently, tackling visible injustices in the world around us without needing to be assured that our skill and our effort will somehow rid the world of injustice altogether. Christian hope, after all, does not need to see what it hopes for (Heb. 11:1); and neither does it require us to comprehend the end of history. Rather, it simply requires us to trust that even the most outwardly insignificant of faithful actions - the cup of cold water given to the child, the widow's mite offered at the temple, the act of hospitality shown to the stranger, none of which has any overall strategic socio-political significance so far as we can now see - will nevertheless be made to contribute in some significant way to the construction of God's kingdom by the action of God's creative and sovereign grace.

You don't have to be a billionaire to believe you can make a difference. Give your resources to a charity and volunteer in your community.

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair.

Let's make progress justice a process, not an afterthought

Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the __east of these_ and give voice to the voiceless.

We hear things like __e elected a black president,_ as if that event was the magic eraser to wipe away all of the racial problems in our country in one fell swoop.But that would be like saying that in 1932, we elected a president with a physical disability, so we should stop building ramps and having reserved handicap spaces because that__ reverse discrimination against the able-bodied

The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".

First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive liberty compatible with similar liberty for others. Second: social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both (a) reasonably expected to be to everyone's advantage, and (b) attached to positions and offices open to all.

However, experience has taught us that action in the now is also necessary, always. Our children cannot dream unless they live, they cannot live unless they are nourished, and who else will feed them the real food without which their dreams will be no different from ours? 'If you want us to change the world someday, we at least have to live long enough to grow up!' shouts the child.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

Political correctness_ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

Apathy is not compatible with love

I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard