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Tikkun ha'olam is a phrase that drives legal decisions. It reflects an understanding that part of the law's purpose is to create a more just society, rather than a perfect one... Tikkun Ha'olam may be translated and understood as a recalibration of the world, a recognition that the world is out of balance and that legal remedies are needed in order to readjust the world to a better balance. The focus is not so much on the power of an individual to effect change, but rather on the power of law to correct systematic injustice.
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The reasonableness of a regulation…is determined by the good standards accepted by the majority of people in a democratic society and state of law, and there is none better and more accepted than basic respect for humans. A free and civilized society is distinguished from a barbaric and oppressive society by the degree to which it treats a human being as a human being. Lofty classic expression was given to this by the Mishnah: "…whosoever preserves a single soul – Scripture ascribes to him as though he had preserved an entire world…" (M. Sanhedrin 4:5)…
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What is called the urban crisis is not just a crisis of decaying cities. It is a crisis of people - minority people, the Black American, the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American seeking full citizenship and equality in the American system. And I see the need for Jews to help - as a thoroughly Jewish obligation, as well as an American one.
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And the women dancing And Miriam was a weaver of unique variety chorus
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The test of whether one is a human rights activist or one who simply uses the issue for political ends is that person’s willingness to apply the human rights measuring stick to his own people. It is pretty easy to limit your calls for human rights to nations other than your own.
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"And our oppression"- this refers to the pressure, as it says: "I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them." (Shemot 3:9) וְעַתָּה הִנֵּה צַעֲקַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בָּאָה אֵלָי וְגַם רָאִיתִי אֶת הַלַּחַץ אֲשֶׁר מִצְרַיִם לֹחֲצִים אֹתָם:
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The midwives, at any rate, if we accept the above exposition which may be based on much earlier traditions, were Jewish. They belonged to that noble galaxy of Hebrew heroines who risked their lives to save their people.
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Tomorrow, January 9, 2011, Southern Sudan will vote in an historic referendum on independence from Sudan. In 2005, after over 20 years of brutal civil war that killed approximately two million people, the Sudanese government in Khartoum and the government of Southern Sudan signed a peace agreement stipulating that this referendum would take place. The vote will almost certainly result in the formation of a new state in Southern Sudan. However, many challenges remain unresolved, such as the division of oil revenues and border demarcation.
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[The rabbi’s task is to] redress the grievances of those who are abandoned and alone, to protect the dignity of the poor, and to save the oppressed from the hands of the oppressor. As cited in http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/08/01/3088799/op-ed-judaism-is-alwa...
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This means, according to the words of our Sages…there in Yevamot [78b-79a], that Saul did not actually kill even a single Gibeonite. 
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