Quaker Focus of the Month
February 2010: Justice and Equality
Am I teaching my students, and do I show through my teaching and way of living, that love of God includes affirming the equality of people, treating others with dignity and respect, and seeking to recognize and address that of God within every person?
Do I examine myself for aspects of prejudice that may be buried, including beliefs that seem to justify biases based on race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, class, and feelings of inferiority or superiority?
What am I doing to help overcome the contemporary effects of past and present oppression?
—Queries from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Faith & Practice
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
—Desmond Tutu
Cease to do evil, learn to do good, seek justice, correct oppression.
—Isaiah 1:16-17
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
—Theodore Roosevelt
