Yet, despite this success, hopes that the Movement would produce true social and
economic equality between the races remain unfulfilled.
Not exact matches
See how the original
equality in colonial America has been overgrown and overwhelmed by a thousand forms of
economic and political differentiation, so that today the gap
between the most fortunate and the least fortunate in America is greater than at any time since the days of plutocratic Rome.
25) is a ringing declaration for
economic equality; but the Levitical law includes canny compromises on sale prices, on differentiation
between urban and rural properties, and on clerical privileges.
The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial
equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in
between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and
economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.
On the left the tension
between economic inequality and political
equality is of course a major theme in Marxist and post-Marxist work.
Kopp shows some awareness of the absurdities of her own experiences — including a «fundraising schedule [that] shuttled me
between two strikingly different
economic spheres: our undersourced classrooms and the plush world of American philanthropy» — but she fails to grasp that this very gap is what makes her stated goal of
equality unachievable.
The Council of Canadians with Disabilities also has an annotated bibliography of literature written
between 1985 (the year Canada's constitutional
equality rights came into force) and 2009 addressing themes such as: disability and
equality rights, social and
economic rights, and key topical areas such as income assistance, employment, housing, health care, and education, among others: Council of Canadians with Disabilities, Canadian Legal Literature Addressing Social and Economic Rights of People with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography (May 2009): online, Council of Canadians with Disabilities http://www.ccdonline.ca/media/socialpolicy/CURA-annotated-bliography-sept2-2
economic rights, and key topical areas such as income assistance, employment, housing, health care, and education, among others: Council of Canadians with Disabilities, Canadian Legal Literature Addressing Social and
Economic Rights of People with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography (May 2009): online, Council of Canadians with Disabilities http://www.ccdonline.ca/media/socialpolicy/CURA-annotated-bliography-sept2-2
Economic Rights of People with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography (May 2009): online, Council of Canadians with Disabilities http://www.ccdonline.ca/media/socialpolicy/CURA-annotated-bliography-sept2-2010.pdf.
An appropriate balance based on the notion of
equality is not
between miners, pastoralists, fishing interests, governments and Indigenous people, but
between the rights - civil, political,
economic, cultural and social - of Indigenous and non-Indigenous titleholders.
(30) An appropriate balance based on the notion of
equality is not
between miners, pastoralists, fishing interests, governments and Indigenous people, but
between the rights - civil, political,
economic, cultural and social - of Indigenous and non-Indigenous titleholders.
The right to
equality and freedom from discrimination have special implications for Indigenous groups.3 As noted in the report of the United Nations Seminar on the Effects of Racism and Racial Discrimination on the Social and
Economic Relations
Between Indigenous Peoples and States: