Chris Grayling, the lord chancellor who this week was accused by the high court of actually trying to
end equality under the law.
Not exact matches
What we have had in British political life
under British common
law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining
equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the
end of the nineteenth century.
Witness the successful US civil rights movement (clearly for
equality under the
law & an
end to segregation) compared to the ultimately unsuccessful 70's / 80's CND campaigners (against atomic weapons but no coherent or sensible pro-position on anything).
The fight for
equality under the
law, argued advocates, had not
ended with the advances made in the civil rights movement, but was still an ongoing battle, as current as ever.
The Fund for Women's
Equality, a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization, promotes legal and lived
equality in the United States by increasing public understanding of the need for comprehensive, fair and equal treatment of women and girls
under the
law and the need to
end sex inequality in all its forms.