Sentences with phrase «equality in the eyes of the law»
Through two seminal victories, the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the civil - rights movement had won equality in the eyes of the law, but the economic and social legacies of centuries of slavery and racial discrimination remained.
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• The same - sex marriage law (2005), publicly defended as an initiative to grant equality of rights and to allow gays and lesbians to look others squarely in the eye.
Reinforcing the frustration felt by all, the words of Marina Parvin, from the Indigenous Mundas community in Bangladesh and representing the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) were read by Carmen Capriles of Bolivia to bleary - eyed delegates around 3:00 AM in the closing moments of the extended negotiating session, «I have travelled all the way from Bangladesh, leaving my home and family, hoping to see a commitment to an effective and equitable new agreement that is binding, ambitious and transformative; a commitment to uphold human rights, gender equality, and the rights of future generations.»
South Dakota's Sen. Dan Lederman, who introduced the bill that will create equality among all breeds in the eyes of the law in his state, said, «The fact is, a dog's breed has nothing to do with how the dog behaves.