Social Justice Engages Groups of People in a Journey of Discovery.

Social justice is not primarily a set of principles. Social justice emerges from within groups of people working to discover and to create the conditions in which all people can thrive and flourish.

Social justice is rooted and nourished in the unconditional love of God for all people and the whole of creation. God’s empowering love can be partially embodied in diverse human communities (imperfectly) to inspire vision, motivate actions for human solidarity, and sustain persistent cooperative effort to create social institutions that enable people to thrive and flourish. In such human social interaction, social justice emerges. Social Justice is dynamic and living, not static.

The discovery of social justice necessarily involves people from all sectors of society. It is especially important that groups of people who have been oppressed and victimized are empowered to move beyond being victims. They must be engaged with other groups of people in taking charge of their own lives. Social justice is the struggle to set free oppressed people to engage in their self-development and enable their emergence from apathy, fear, and bondage.

Social justice arises from within the social movements that facilitate discovery of new self-understandings, generate positive visions of the future, and build up hope from meaningful accomplishments cooperatively achieved. This type of collaborative social justice is described in the book Journeys into Justice, in ten case histories of successful social justice organizations that achieved amazing accomplishments.

 

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