I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.
During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.
Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance
The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum - but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.
The root causes of terrorism is terrorists.
If we want to build communities that are safe, we have to address the root causes of violence.
We need to start looking at some of the root causes of division. And one of the reasons why people are exploited to hate, to fear others is that people are afraid in their own lives.
Only by addressing the root causes of conflict and disputes can we hope to find lasting peace in a just and equitable world.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes of working peoples' need for welfare support, like low pay and high rents, the number of working people relying on benefits increases.
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.
When I talk about 'apolitical' or 'nonpartisan' change, I mean first and foremost exploring root causes with due seriousness and at least agreeing on what they are.