Quotes about Injustice

They look like the oppressors, but have no doubt they are really the oppressed.

Unless and until we can enjoy this, so much of what passes for Christianity will amount to little more than well-disguised narcissism and self-referential politics. We see this phenomenon playing out in the de facto values of people who strongly identify as Christian. Often they are more racist, classist, and sexist than non-Christians. "Others can carry the burden and the pain of injustice, but not my group," they seem to say.

if you believe Jesus's main purpose is to provide a means of personal, individual salvation, it is all too easy to think that he doesn't have anything to do with human history—with war or injustice, or destruction of nature, or anything that contradicts our egos' desires or our cultural biases.

The global issues of injustice, the culture of death that we are a part of, the sufferings of the oppressed, all of these demand t hat we bring the Voice of the Spirit to these well-denied and disguised situations, and not just our own tiny judgments or anger. This i the difference between true Gospel and mere political correctness or Band-Aid liberal responses. We are holding out for the great Gospel...

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.