Yet it is the message Haiti carried during the age of democratic revolution, the aspiration for equality across the color line, that remains the necessary hope of the unfinished American revolution.
Because we live in the age after the age of class war, when no idea has taken the place of socialism to carry the human aspiration for equality, the historiographical debate over the nature of the Spanish Civil War has a blind spot when it comes to the human heart of the matter.
Maybe by then we'll have grown into our aspirations for equality, and the Freeman-Coppadges will be equal in more than name.
Doing this work and transforming our beliefs as a nation and about one another as equal human beings will create more than aspirations for equality, freedom and democracy.
The only way to stop the process was to show the contradictions between their aspirations for equality and the nature of the Zionist state, which places Jews above others".
There are sensible people who look at Warren and see a man who belittled their marriages, lied about the perils California faced if it didn't pass Proposition 8, and -- in helping get gay marriage repealed -- thwarted their deepest aspirations for equality.
But the noble human aspiration for autonomy, equality and prosperity struggled mightily against the forces of misery and oppression and eventually succeeded in establishing modern, liberal, democratic, capitalist, welfare societies".
Today, as I reflect upon the pain inflicted on this particular gay man, I am inspired with a new dream -- not only an aspiration for LGBT equality -- but a dream of gay empowerment.
Hence, the argument goes, fundamental moral ideals other than equality stand behind our aspiring for equality.
Her target here was not the treaties but "the conscription of bodies", "worthy of Lenin" in its "contempt of liberty … exaltation of the state … and the aspiration for similarity and equality".
Perhaps honoring Jane and her right to survival means turning away from aspirations of equality and toward demands for a more meaningful type of justice.
