The engineer was a utopian socialist – and at the centre of his urbanism was a deep sense of equality and a populist ideology.
As Conor Costello of Oxfam puts it: "She had an amazing capacity to inspire and lead, and a soul-deep commitment to equality and justice that she acted on, every single day".
A large amount of their 2010 election platform chose to advertise decidedly leftish values – no deep cuts, more equality, a strong welfare state – even though the Liberal camp at the top of the party always wanted to throw its hat in with the Tories.
It is a deep sense of equality and justice for all, which does not change due to the attitudes of anyone including those who do not stand up for my right to equality and justice.
Rich Fitzgerald's inexplicable choice to eliminate domestic-partner recognition in Allegheny County about five weeks after the Pennsylvania marriage-equality decision, although "softened" with an extension, reflects this deep misunderstanding of equality.
And when it is said at those dinner tables and backyard discussions free of any blacks, it is NOT in an attitude of deep respect and equality toward one's fellow man.
A deep sense of equality filled the room; no matter how advanced in skill an apprentice, young or old, happened to be, s/he made an effort to enrich the experience of peers.
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marriages, lied about the perils California faced if it didn't pass Proposition 8, and -- in helping get gay marriage repealed -- thwarted their deepest aspirations for equality.
Governor Bush's symbolic appeals to outdated Southern resistance have come in the form of his appearance at Bob Jones University and his insistence that flying the Confederate flag over the South Carolina Capitol was a states' rights matter that had nothing to do with deeper principles of racial equality.
These need to be assessed according to their degree of fidelity to the deeper ideal of moral equality (Kymlicka 1990, p. 44).
