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IS IT FAIR?

Key words:

UNFAIRNESS: not treating equally

JUSTICE: treating others fairly, giving someone what they deserve

INJUSTICE: not allowing someone their rights

AUTHORITY: legal power or right to do something, having power over others

PREJUDICE: judging others before full facts are known

Jews

TITHING: christians voluntarily pay 1/10 of their earnings to the church

DISCRIMINATION: treating others differently because they are different

HUMAN DIGNITY: recognising that all human life has great value

HUMAN RIGHTS: things that people are legally allowed to have or do

RACISM: people of different origins are better than others

GENDER: what sex a person is

ANTI-SEMITISM: discrimination against

MATIN LUTHER KING

Equal human rights

Stop discrimination

Race and gender

Violence is wrong

Peacefully protested

Sit ins, boycotts and marches

'I have a dream speech'

Leader of civil rights movemenet

World issues:

Poverty in LEDCs

War

Natural disasters

Sexism

Racism

Ageism

Jewish:

All created equally in God's image

Women treated equally to men

Play an important role in Shabat

"Treat others as you want to be treated"

"God created us all in his image"

Charity:

Christian Aid: world free from poverty

promotes justice

'Love thy neighbour'

'Image of God'

Tzedek: Aims to eliminate poverty and religion

Putting money in a poor persons hand

'Do not store up for youselves, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven'

'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter heaven'

Christians:

Good samaritan

No prejudice

Help those in need

Wealth:

Zakah- give 2.5% of earning to charity

One of the five pillars of Islam

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