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In the News (Fri 25 Jul 08)

  
  Injustice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Injustice in Northern Indiana Courts Alleging injustice to two minor children and their father.
The Injustice Must End Claims that a 15-year-old boy was wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment in Michigan.
Corruption and Injustice Corruption and injustice is well and alive in our so called free country.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Injustice.html   (192 words)

  
 20th WCP: The Double Life of Justice and Injustice in Thrasymachus' Account
injustice, when it comes into being on a sufficient scale, is mightier, freer, and more masterful than justice; and, as I have said from the beginning, the just is the advantage of the stronger, and the unjust is what is profitable and advantageous for oneself.
But the injustice of the second part of the statement implies that the "other" in the first part is not the ruling tyrant, but the ruled many.
So, it is clear that the praising of injustice from the ruler's perspective rests upon a standard of justice that is found to be the case from the ruled's perspective and therefore, the ruler never really escapes the standards of justice and injustice as Thrasymachus would want us to believe.
www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciArp.htm   (5278 words)

  
 IslamWeb - Injustice Is Abysmal Darkness
Injustice is self deprivation of the beauties and delicacies of life; and it is also the excessive wanton demands and lust for such desires.
Injustice to kinsmen is a rapidly disseminating process that soon tears the matrix of familial cohesion, and severs the bonds of social structural integration.
Also, the total injustice of mankind cannot suppress even a single word of justice, because justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his right, and that aim is supreme.
www.islamweb.net /ver2/archive/article.php?lang=E&id=27172   (1417 words)

  
 Injustice Doesn't Stop in Azeri BC 'Cap | bloodhorse.com
Injustice, bought privately last month for a reported $165,000 by Darrell and Evelyn Yates and turned over to Chicago-based trainer Wayne Catalano, paid an immediate dividend by winning the $175,000 Azeri Breeders' Cup (gr.
Jockey Luis Quinonez gunned Injustice, a 4-year-old daughter of Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Lit de Justice, right to the lead from the one-hole in the 1 1/16-mile Azeri for fillies and mares.
This was the eighth, and most significant, victory for Injustice -- purchased originally as a 2-year-old for $9,000 -- in 18 starts.
www.bloodhorse.com /articleindex/article.asp?id=27140   (307 words)

  
 Injustice
INJUSTICE - the controversial feature length documentary about the struggles for justice by the families of people who have died in police custody ­ continues its national and international screening programme into 2003 despite the attempts of the Police Federation and individual police officers to suppress the film through threats of legal action.
Injustice is the story of the struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody.
Injustice was nominated for an Index On Censorship Award and won Best Documentary at the BFM International Film Festival in 2002.
www.blink.org.uk /print.asp?key=2461   (683 words)

  
 Social Research: Putting Injustice First: An Alternative Approach to Liberal Pluralism
If we believe that injustice is nothing but the absence of justice, we will have to be convinced that there is a better model of justice out there in order to take seriously complaints about previously unrecognized sources of injustice.
Injustice represents more than the mere absence of justice, and justice, as we have seen, represents considerably more than the correction of injustice.
When Shklar puts injustice first, it is to correct what she sees as the arrogance of philosophers and political theorists who mistake their often useful models of social justice for accurate pictures of our moral world.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2267/is_4_66/ai_60869069/pg_4   (1456 words)

  
 injustice - definition by dict.die.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
injustice n 1: an unjust act [syn: unfairness, iniquity] 2: the practice of being unjust or unfair [syn: unjustness] [ant: justice]
Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered, or at least without being punished.
A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
dict.die.net /injustice   (123 words)

  
 Social injustice -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Social injustice is a concept relating to the perceived unfairness of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens.
The concept is distinct from those of (Click link for more info and facts about legal) legal (The quality of being just or fair) justice, which may or may not be considered moral in practice.
Opposition to social injustice is increasingly a platform of emerging (Click link for more info and facts about political parties) political parties.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/So/Social_injustice.htm   (187 words)

  
 Psybersquare: Injustice Collectors
Injustice Collectors truly believe that they are morally and ethically superior to others and that others chronically do not hold themselves to the same high standards as the injustice collector does.
Injustice Collectors are never upset by the disparity of their rules for others with their own expectations of themselves.
The unfortunate outcome in the dysfunctional family is that either the People Pleaser has to become progressively more crippled and entrenched in their subservient role in the family, or else they become healthier and stronger and ultimately are accused of breaking up the family.
www.psybersquare.com /family/family_injustice.html   (891 words)

  
 Presence: Categories of Injustice
The first type is injustice visited upon man by his fellow man; this would include murder, theft and the like.
The second type of injustice is that which is commonly referred to as an "Act of God," that is some sort of natural disaster or circumstantial happenstance that causes injustice, often indiscriminately.
The injustice of the first kind, however, that perpetrated by Man on Man, remained prevalent, to the point that God (ironically) unleashed the wrath of Nature upon Man, all but obliterating him from the face of the Earth.
presence.baltiblogs.com /2005/01/07/categories_of_injustice.html   (1201 words)

  
 Psycholegal Scholarship's Contribution to False Consciousness About Injustice
First, empirically, injustice appears before a theory of justice develops (see also Finkel: "Bluntly put, the victim's cry is first, heady commentary is the afterthought"--1998, p.
Similarly, injustice is apparent when "the elaborate edifice of due process on which we pride ourselves and invest our national self-image is used most by those who need it least" (Haney, 1991, p.
Indeed, the insistence on procedurally correct, context-free decisions by neutral, autonomous legal institutions, devoid of subjectivity and emotion, is commonly portrayed as one of law's strong points, distinguishing it from more "primitive" systems where individuals allegedly suffer at the whim of despotic or arbitrary rulers.
www.dennisfox.net /papers/injustice.html   (10263 words)

  
 Injustice Quotations compiled by GIGA
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
www.giga-usa.com /gigaweb1/quotes2/qutopinjusticex001.htm   (353 words)

  
 Addressing Injustice
Economic injustice involves the state's failure to provide individuals with basic necessities of life, such as access to adequate food and housing, and its maintenance of huge discrepancies in wealth.
Addressing political injustice is often a matter of developing institutions of fair governance, such as an accountable police force and judiciary.
When injustices are committed in the initiation or the conduct of warfare, retribution is typically accomplished through international courts or tribunals that carry out war crimes adjudication.
www.beyondintractability.org /m/address_injustice.jsp   (3175 words)

  
 The Republic of Plato
And thus, as I have shown, Socrates, injustice, when on a sufficient scale, has more strength and freedom and mastery than justice; and, as I said at first, justice is the interest of the stronger, whereas injustice is a man's own profit and interest.
For, granting that there may be an unjust man who is able to commit injustice either by fraud or force, still this does not convince me of the superior advantage of injustice, and there may be others who are in the same predicament with myself.
A statement was made that injustice is stronger and more powerful than justice, but now justice, having been identified with wisdom and virtue, is easily shown to be stronger than injustice, if injustice is ignorance; this can no longer be questioned by anyone.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /etcbin/toccer-new2?id=PlaRepu.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all   (17056 words)

  
 Injustice - National Tour
INJUSTICE is a film about the struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody.
Injustice presents evidence that serving police officers have committed crimes of manslaughter and murder.
Injustice was nominated for an Index On Censorship Award and won Best Documentary at the BFM International Film Festival in 2002, a National Social Justice Award in 2003 and won Best Documentary (Human Rights) at the One World Film Festival 2003.
www.blink.org.uk /print.asp?key=4656   (900 words)

  
 The denial of injustice: existential anxiety as a source of the underestimation of animal suffering
The denial of injustice: existential anxiety as a source of the underestimation of animal suffering
This is the fear of having to live in an essential unjust reality which does not care about the interests and emotions of individuals like ourselves and our loved ones.
The safer and more appreciated the non-vegan feels among vegans, the more she will be inclined to gradually overcome her denial of animal suffering.
www.animalfreedom.org /english/column/injustice.html   (1028 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified
Now the newest edition of “Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified” was named “Song Dynasty Punishment Cases of Injustice Rectified”.
The publication governs to the Hunan constitution, examines the government official for the province in refers, instructs the prison matter the examination, achieves "washes injustice" goal.
On tenth before the festival at the end of Ding fine is even, newly eliminates the straight Peru Chinese style pavilion, Hunan raises punishment sufficient ambassador the good government office takes part in policy discussions official Song kindly favors the father foreword.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Collected-Cases-of-Injustice-Rectified   (3583 words)

  
 Colorblind Injustice
In Colorblind Injustice, J. Morgan Kousser examines the evolution of voting laws, judicial decisions, and political manipulations from the first Reconstruction through the modern day, seeking to establish the institutional conditions under which equal voting rights would be possible for minorities in America.
One reviewer at a symposium on Colorblind Injustice dismissed a good portion of the study with the comment that the circumstances of the two Reconstructions were too different to compare.
Accepting this as the cognitive structure by which we understand the world denotes that history is always understood this way; the question lies in the degree to which comparative history reveals new ideas rather than just confirming or disabusing preconceptions.
userwww.sfsu.edu /~epf/2002/van.html   (1835 words)

  
 International Mens Organisation and Fathers Fighting Injustice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The petition on behalf of Fathers Fighting Injustice addresses the fact that, on 5 February, the Justice 1 Committee changed the remit of its inquiry into the regulation of the legal profession by agreeing not to consider the judiciary.
Fathers Fighting Injustice has information that, in many cases, land and properties owned by those forced into bankruptcy by the actions of lawyers and the decisions of sheriffs end up in the hands of those who forced those fathers into bankruptcy.
We believe that is a means to cover up the real reason for those suicides and that in many cases is the utter brutality faced in scottish courts when fathers are blocked from contact with their children were enormous psychological pressures have played a major factor in those deaths.
rain.prohosting.com /imoffi/napril42003.htm   (8372 words)

  
 Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Criminal Injustice is a tool for exposing a giant hidden monster in the political landscape of life in the United States.
We designed it to be a primer for people who are working to raise consciousness in their communities, their schools, their workplaces, and inside prisons and the prison system.
Criminal Injustice, which explores the connections between imprisonment, racism, class domination, misogyny, and homophobia, offers us invaluable information and compelling arguments for placing prison issues on the agenda of every progressive organization.
www.prisonactivist.org /parc/criminal-injustice.shtml   (517 words)

  
 Injustice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy."
It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy.
"Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession — to defend it against every thrust from within or without."
www.virtuescience.com /injustice.html   (412 words)

  
 SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Can one suffer injustice willingly?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But it may happen that a man does an injustice to one who wishes it, for instance if he sell him a thing for more than it is worth.
Secondly, this or that man may be considered as belonging to the State as part thereof, or as belonging to God, as His creature and image; and thus a man who kills himself, does an injury not indeed to himself, but to the State and to God.
Now in the point of doing and suffering injustice, the material element is that which is done externally, considered in itself, as stated above (2), and the formal and essential element is on the part of the will of agent and patient, as stated above (2).
www.newadvent.org /summa/305903.htm   (568 words)

  
 Plato's Republic chapter 2: The individual, the state, and education
For all men believe in their hearts that injustice is far more profitable to the individual than justice, and he who argues as I have been supposing, will say that they are right.
If he have taken a false step he must be able to recover himself; he must be one who can speak with effect, if any of his deeds come to light, and who can force his way where force is required by his courage and strength, and command of money and friends.
And therefore, I say, not only prove to us that justice is better than injustice, but show what they either of them do to the possessor of them, which makes the one to be a good and the other an evil, whether seen or unseen by gods and men.
www.mdx.ac.uk /www/study/xpla2.htm   (7940 words)

  
 Search Results for injustice - Encyclopædia Britannica
Though 'olam ha-ze is full of misery and injustice, one's view of life is...
Greek philosopher, of Athens, who was a disciple of Socrates and is considered the founder of the Cynic school of philosophy, though Diogenes of Sinope often is given that credit.
Education, health, welfare, and other measurements of the quality of life in Mississippi necessarily must be considered in the perspective of the state's long history of segregation and racial...
www.britannica.com /search?ref=B04319&query=injustice&submit=Find   (510 words)

  
 S.D. Ross, Injustice and Restitution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
However, the author remains with his evocation of the emptiness of authority and the constancy of injustice.
But, if law is also the discovery of being, either it discovers injustice or it measures out each time the unforgotten nature of our forgetting injustice (51), i.e., it reminds us of injustice as it rules, judges, measures, ordains in time.
All we can know is injustice not justice, but that is because to us in fact order is primordial, though we may imagine chaos to have been there first, and we know this through our bodies, their rhythms, embeddness, dependency.
www.ualberta.ca /~di/csh/csh10/RossI.html   (778 words)

  
 Injustice Society
The Injustice Society (also called the Injustice Society of the World) is a group of fictional supervillains in the DC Comics universe.
The original Injustice Gang's membership included Brain Wave, The Gambler, Per Degaton, The Thinker, Vandal Savage and The Wizard.
The Justice League's counterpart group of enemies is known as the Injustice Gang.
encycl.opentopia.com /term/Injustice_Society   (108 words)

  
 Injustice, segregation, apartheid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Injustices, such as segregation in the southern U.S. or apartheid in South Africa or the exclusion of Canadian Indians from liquor stores or bars were all issues that could raise one’s blood pressure.
Today’s injustices tend to be a lot more trivial and benign.
I believe that a lot of so-called injustices are merely acts of thoughtlessness or extraordinary rudeness and the only reason that they are considered injustices is because many people are too easily offended.
www.canadafreepress.com /2005/klaus032105.htm   (630 words)

  
 Sales Inquiries for "Injustice"
INJUSTICE is now available in the UK on VHS.
INJUSTICE is also available in Europe on VHS.
INJUSTICE is also available in the USA from: Third World Newsreel
www.injusticefilm.co.uk /sales.html   (103 words)

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