Sentence examples for citizenship equality from inspiring English sources

Marc Perkel, Gilroy, California What if... Regarding Nicholas Kristof's "Waiting for Gandhi" (Views, July 12): One wonders what would have happened if in 1967, after Israel's victory in the war, Palestinian leaders had launched a nonviolent mass-movement for citizenship, equality and civil rights throughout the state of Israel.

She noted that American colleges had served as "both the emblem and the engine of the expansion of citizenship, equality and opportunity — to blacks, women, Jews, immigrants, and others who would have been subjected to quotas or excluded altogether in an earlier era".

Primary among these social bases in a democratic society are the conditions needed for equal citizenship, including equality of political rights and fair equal opportunity, as well as personal independence and adequate material means for achieving it.

First, The central purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to guarantee equal citizenship and equality before the law for all citizens and for all persons.

Until such travesties are corrected, the notion of a cohesive Big Society united by common bonds of citizenship and equality will be threadbare.

And it was only with the civil rights movement that the black minority could come a few steps closer to the still distant value of citizenship and equality.

But Villalobos and her lawyers also say that something larger is at risk: the meaning of U.S. citizenship and equality under the law.

Although many northern Jeffersonians opposed slavery, they helped build a complex political movement that defended the rights of white men to self-government, American citizenship, and equality and protected the master's right to enslave.

Every topic — the role of African-Americans in the military, or the fight for access to public education in the South — will be examined for how it affected society as a whole, and what it says about America's evolving definitions of citizenship and equality.

"Redeemers" employed vicious racial violence and state legislation as tools to prevent black citizenship and equality promised under the 14th and 15th amendments.

Congress overrode a Johnson veto to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (also introduced by Trumbull), granting African-Americans citizenship and equality before the law, and forbidding any action by a state to the contrary.