Sentence examples for equality of individuals from inspiring English sources
Paine's radical vision of democracy based on the natural equality of individuals and the capacity of rational men to design political institutions – "we have it in our power to begin the world over again" – is in the DNA of American politics, on both left and right.
'(D iscriminatory laws enacted out of hatred, against aliens or against persons of any particular race or category or against persons belonging to specified social or political groups * * * run counter to the internationally accepted principle of the equality of individuals before the law.' Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. v. S.U.P.O.R. Co., (1955) Int'l L.Rep.
Set in rural Georgia in 1875 and directed with unobtrusive skill by Regge Life, this drama is a tale of people who have been granted freedom but have not achieved equality; of individuals chained to the past and scattered by war but seeking a future; of psyches haunted by ineradicable memories and hearts seared by awful pain and guilt yet buoyed by an inextinguishable pride and hope.
At the same time, he condemns any move towards a universal monarchy, because a monarchy, in contrast to a republic, does not guarantee, but undermines, the freedom and equality of individuals.
The Mohists devote little or no attention to the rights, liberty, or equality of individuals, nor even to the question of what the most fulfilling kind of individual life is.
Indeed, in our study, after social remittances are accounted for, financial remittances appear inconsequential in shaping opinions about whether the state should create jobs and guarantee the well-being and equality of individuals.
The real basis for fighting racism is neatly summed up in five words from the U.S. Declaration of Independence: "All men are created equal". But in the U.N. calculus, it is not the equality of individual men or women that matters most.
They should collectively decide the religious or ideological nature of their state, yet at the same time unequivocally state in the written text of the Constitution overarching principles guaranteeing the liberty and equality of individual citizens irrespective of their gender, religion, or race, which Egypt's suspended constitution and even its 1971 predecessor only ambiguously protected.
As Rothschild points out, "the system of economic freedom is founded on the equality of all individuals, and it is at the same time subversive of equality".
As Rothschild points out, "the system of economic freedom is founded on the equality of all individuals, and it is at the same time subversive of equality". But this means more than that; as she has it, we must be able "to live without certainty" in a society that continually creates new opportunities while casting old decisions into doubt.
