This speech has been largely forgotten, overshadowed by his assassination five months later and the more dramatic push for racial equality by his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson.
For instance, in rural areas of Niger, UN estimates puts the number of girls per 100 boys at school as low as 41.This is in contrast to dramatic improvements in gender equality in schooling seen in the rest of the world.
Indeed, the negative finding is telling: countries that have taken a hardline stance against multiculturalism, or immigration, have not seen a flowering of their welfare state or dramatic increases in economic equality.
They offer hope that the 21st century will witness dramatic changes toward greater equality and democracy.
That all appears to be slated to change over the coming months, with new polls showing dramatic support for marriage equality in the state of Illinois.
I am convinced that the people of Westboro Baptist Church are responsible for the dramatic advances in marriage equality and gay rights over the last decade.
In his telling, Muir's passion for nature is best understood alongside a mostly gradual, if at times dramatic, shift in American society toward racial equality, equality between men and women, and the like — a shift which, in Worster's reckoning, entailed liberation from Christian orthodoxy.
Now is the time for ministers to face the stark facts: it is their job to do the things that markets cannot, and that means, in the interests of equality of opportunity, dramatic intervention to make highly desirable new jobs available in the areas where they are few and far between.
The report offers 10 recommendations to overcome the paradox that while huge improvements have been made in the legal position of women over the last century, there is still a dramatic lag in translating that into equality and justice.
Republicans are not the only group to show a dramatic shift in opinions on marriage equality in recent years.
