Sentence examples for the equal respect from inspiring English sources

Joe Solmonese, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, issued a statement today that read in part: Today, President Obama made history by boldly stating that gay and lesbian Americans should be fully and equally part of the fabric of American society and that our families deserve nothing less than the equal respect and recognition that comes through marriage.

But someone might ask, why should the principle of equal respect take precedence over the principle J? They are both principles of justice so we need some reason for favoring the equal respect principle in general over the others.

Whereas securing equal recognition for racial, religious, or sexual minorities generally does not require significant financial outlays, some of the actions and policies necessary to secure the equal respect or recognition of people with disabilities cost money, and therefore involve redistribution of resources.

To the extent that the democratic assembly's claim of authority is grounded in the public realization of the principle of equal respect, the authority would run out when the democratic assembly makes law that undermines equal respect.

The main moral motivation for the Difference Principle is similar to that for strict equality: equal respect for persons.

So if they advocate some policy on the grounds that it conforms with what they take to be the correct principle of justice J, and the majority chooses a different policy on the grounds of an incompatible principle L, the democratic theory says that they ought to accept the policy that is grounded in L because only in this way do they accord the proper equal respect to their fellow citizens.

The presumption in favor of equality can be justified by the principle of equal respect together with the requirement of universal and reciprocal justification; that requirement is linked to the morality of equal respect granting each individual equal consideration in every justification and distribution.

"Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay and equal opportunity.

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

Insisting upon immunity for all Americans repudiates the principle of equal respect for the rule of law that we espoused at Nuremberg.

As Lisa Bloom, a civil rights lawyer who's been representing sexual harassment cases for years, put it in a statement, "Women fought a generation ago and won the right to equal respect in the workplace.