"As social equality spreads there are more and more people who, though neither rich nor powerful enough to have much hold over others, have gained to keep enough wealth and enough understanding to look after their own needs," he wrote.
Sadly, rather than gender equality spreading this idea to include women, it's gone the other way round: you can now wander for hours among products catering to the beauty needs of men.
But, looking at the historical experience with issues like bans on interracial marriage, which the Supreme Court outlawed only in 1967, they feel confident that if equality spreads to more states and public attitudes continue shifting, a future Supreme Court will find that marriage is a right for gay men and lesbians as well as heterosexuals.
The anti-apartheid icon was a champion for peace and equality, spreading a message of hope and reciprocity all over the world.
Rest assured, as marriage equality spreads, if Sesame Workshop finds that children have questions or need models for same-sex marriage, its researchers, writers and producers will collaborate to find the most age-appropriate means to introduce the concept, on the storyline.
And only decades after that, in the 1960s, did the civil rights movement start a new wave of equality that spread into feminism, the Native American movement, the gay and lesbian movement, and much more.
Thanks to this convention, the idea that women should enjoy moral, civic, and political equality has spread throughout the world.
Obama said last week that the legacy of discrimination had left a persistent economic gap between blacks and whites, but that the civil rights movement's impulse for equality had spread to Hispanics, immigrants, gays and others.
Besides, marriage equality was spreading like patchy sunshine across the blue states, and any state that recognized a same-sex Vermont union might find a subsequent heterosexual marriage invalid or even illegal.
It has been shown that the average mutual information is maximized by orthogonally-invariant random Welch bound equality (WBE) spreading sequences.
