Sentence examples for conception of equality from inspiring English sources

The occasion of the first Martin Luther King Jr. Day Speech at Lewis and Clark Law School, following on the heels of the Supreme Court's rejection of two voluntary racial school integration plans, warrants revisiting the conception of equality that called for school integration, the prospects for equal opportunity without education, and remaining arguments for integration.

Unfortunately, the American conception of equality seems to operate on a sixth-grade level.

A formal conception of equality helps Ms. Fisher in her case, Fisher v. University of Texas, No. 11-345.

Agacinski rallied to the cause: She felt that the Enlightenment conception of equality, abstract and universal, superbly ignored the flesh and blood realities of human existence.

In order to outline their position, egalitarians must thus take account of a specific (egalitarian) conception of equality.

Indeed, given the controversies over justice, individuals will think that the policies do not accord with their favored conception of equality.

Different conceptions of equality of opportunity construe this idea of competing on equal terms variously.

But a tension runs through the cases, one based on different conceptions of equality.

We defend secularism, and we have conceptions of equality between men and women".

Merton's arguments have significant implications for our conceptions of equality and justice, and they challenge our beliefs about culture, education, and public policy.

Martin O'Neill brings out something of equality's complexity and usefully draws our attention to the distinction between two conceptions of equality often conflated by the right – equality of opportunity and equality of outcome.