Harper’s posted this passage today; I don’t know if it was motivated by Easter or a political reason. But then Barth is finding some political in Easter.

For this reason also the human justice which God demands and which is crafted in obedience to him—the justice which according to Amos 5:24 is to pour down like an endless stream—necessarily takes the form of giving justice to the persecuted innocents, the downtrodden poor, widows, orphans and the outsiders, for this reason God always stands, without precondition and passionately, on this and only on this side, no matter the circumstances and deeds of his people: always against the powerful, always for the lowly, always against those who already have their share, always for those from whom it has been robbed or withdrawn. What does that mean? This cannot be explained abstractly through the political nature and particularly from the concept of justice in the Old Testament, nor more generally of a biblical message. In fact it has this character and one cannot hear it, cannot believe it, without being drawn to accountability in the direction to which it points.

Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, II/1, p. 434