Sentence examples for ideas of equality from inspiring English sources

The times may be changing elsewhere, but for the foremen, anyone attempting to introduce ideas of equality into the union is branded a socialist and threatened with violence.

What follows is often very moving: accounts of nitty-gritty experience spanning two or three generations that dovetail into ideas of equality and social justice.

Descartes's influence was immense, to be sure, but it is a stretch to credit him, as Shorto does, with laying the ground for modern ideas of equality, individual rights and self-government.

Decreasing our dependence on foreign oil through the creation of sustainable, economically fair alternative energy plans would not only stabilize our economy and create jobs, but would also prove to the rest of the world that we truly believe in the ideas of equality and democracy for all.

Fairness is often equated as being synonymous with ideas of equality and justice (Hay 1995).

Rousseau's works were held to influence the French revolutionaries, and late 18th and early 19th century philosophers were convinced that the Revolution was caused by philosophers' ideas of equality, democracy, freedom (Israel, 2002).

In this regard the veil interprets the Kantian idea of equality as equal respect for moral persons (cf. CP 255).

But by the nineteen-eighties the Court's opinion was being criticized on the left, too, as a failure of legal reasoning and even as a betrayal of the idea of equality, especially after the Equal Rights Amendment, first introduced in Congress in 1923, and passed by Congress in 1972, fell short of passage in the states before its ratification deadline, in 1982.

Thus, for Rawls, some of the paradigmatic examples of the political values of justice and public reason would include: the idea of equal basic liberties; the idea of equality of opportunity; and principles concerning a just distribution of income and wealth (Rawls 1999b, 584).

"Things like … the idea of equality, the idea that people should have equal opportunities for all jobs, the idea that the hereditary principle shouldn't apply … " "Mrs Windsor?" I interject, thinking of the time in 2003 when Wood was ejected from the assembly chamber in 2003 for this reference to the Queen.

We had this idea of equality.