Sentences with phrase «against racial equality»

Peter Norman may be in the record books as an Olympic silver medallist, but his support of the protest against racial equality by Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the two black Americans sharing a podium with him, was arguably much more significant.

In an interview with Indiewire, the filmmaker was direct about the political implications: «You can get on your soapbox, you can push your political agenda or your religious agenda, against gay marriage, against racial equality, but you can't argue about these people in their home... Equality as a concept isn't something I think we ever achieve, it's something we make progress toward, and hope that we don't slip back and lose any of it.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State.»

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State,» Diaz wrote in his «What You Should Know» email at the time.

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But, more than that, they would show you, by the characters they featured and the plotlines they put forward, a new way of seeing things on issues ranging from racial equality to obesity prevention to the global fight against AIDS.

He reported that the depth of passionate hatred directed against those who were trying to affirm racial equality was «simply unbelievable».

Yet there is little doubt that race equality is practiced further under Communism than is general in the democracies of the West, and it is certain that our racial inequalities, though exaggerated, are a chief weapon in the psychological war against us.

Paradoxically, labor unions have gone further than any other group in America, not excepting the churches, to witness against racial injustice and try to secure equality of treatment.

In the past year, our culture has dealt with continuous turmoil, mass shootings, increasingly disturbing accounts of gross sexual misconduct, threats to the rights of immigrants, reproductive rights, transgender rights, threats against our rights to health care, against gender and racial equality, against the protection of our environment, of internet neutrality, as well as attacks against Planned Parenthood, the EPA, the NEA and global organizations such as UNESCO.

For the past 60 years, Ringgold has fought tirelessly against the mainstream by promoting racial and gender equality in her practice.

They are explicitly against racial and gender equality, abortion or euthanasia, same - sex marriage and the criminalization of gender violence, and they aim to restrict the concept of family to heteronormative couples.

Trump's demonization of Mexicans and Muslims foreshadows an assault not only on the safeguards against racial discrimination developed since the 1950s (and which moulded our own equality laws) but even on the fundamental rights of the individual to freedom from arbitrary detention and punishment.

That, in recognition that existing protections against racial discrimination have been overridden in relation to Indigenous peoples, the Commonwealth Government begin a constitutional process for the removal of section 25 of the Constitution and its replacement with a clause guaranteeing equality before the law and non-discrimination.