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#AJHeschel: "Those who know how to exploit are endowed with the skill to justify their acts, while those who are easily exploited possess no skill in pleading their own cause. Who shall prevent the epidemic of injustice that no Court of Justice is capable of stopping?" 7/

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Quoted by@lukeburgis 20/ Isaiah’s image—"justice the line, righteousness the plummet"—gives us the image of divine architecture: reality itself founded on justice as right relation. Covenantal fidelity is not a metaphor but the very structure of reality—a world built on injustice cannot stand.Quoted by@TheTweetOfGod Here's Abraham Joshua Heschel, MLK's closest non-Black ally.Quoted by@RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace And let us not forget the messianic promise to the planetary poor implicit in the teaching of Jesus the Prophet.