"Social Justice" — I love this term because it's a big enough
umbrella for all of us. It brings together people of many different
faith traditions, human rights and environmental activists, labor
organizers, young people who want to make the world a better place, and
on and on. When I speak of working for social justice, I begin with the
teachings of Jesus, and his commitment to basic fairness and a life of
dignity for the poorest of the poor. In our world today, that means we
walk with the majority of the world's population that works hard every
day with no expectation that life will ever get better. It means we
cannot rest until everyone, everywhere, is paid a wage with which he or
she can...

"Social Justice" — I love this term because it's a big enough
umbrella for all of us. It brings together people of many different
faith traditions, human rights and environmental activists, labor
organizers, young people who want to make the world a better place, and
on and on. When I speak of working for social justice, I begin with the
teachings of Jesus, and his commitment to basic fairness and a life of
dignity for the poorest of the poor. In our world today, that means we
walk with the majority of the world's population that works hard every
day with no expectation that life will ever get better. It means we
cannot rest until everyone, everywhere, is paid a wage with which he or
she can provide for the basic needs of his or her family. It means that
those of us who have privilege must be willing to give up those things
that cannot be sustained in a fair world — especially those things that
use an unfair percentage of the world's environmental resources.
Social
Justice isn't something I expect we'll attain in my lifetime.
Fortunately, nothing could be more fulfilling than working to make it
happen.
- Rick Ufford-Chase, international director, BorderLinks and moderator of the Presbyterian Church USA