Sentences with phrase «of racial equality»

It is now 2018 and we have not moved the dial as much as I thought we would have by now on the issue of racial equality.

It has provided grounds for the recognition of racial equality — a recognition of the dignity of human nature as such — but it has done much more, and indeed, much less.

More radical advocacy of racial equality will only get in the way of achieving these righteous ends.

Footnote 10 indicates that Congress is without power to undercut the equal protection guarantee of racial equality in the guise of implementing

But the majority voted, in effect: «No, the university is committed to other values beside the pursuit of truth, and in this case the principle of racial equality is at stake.»

That most Americans have not felt it as tyranny stems from the fact that most of us agree with the goals of racial equality.

Many others on the other hand were outraged by Kaepernick's stance and saw it instead as a sign of disrespect for the country, the flag, the military, and the police, where others applauded the movement, including fellow NFL players who supported Kaepernick's gesture of racial equality by also taking a knee in solidarity during the national anthem.

Christians have been the champions of racial equality in this country, which is faring far better than the rest of the world on that score.

But it's the ideologies of identity politics that are being challenged, and rightly so, not the substantive ideal of racial equality.

If «the Church» is backward in demonstrations of racial equality, or conservative in economics, or lethargic in attacking the causes of war, it is mainly because church members in their actions lag behind the official pronouncements of the Church.

It is ironic that the declaration of judicial supremacy made by the Warren Court came in the context of the Court's efforts to enforce a ruling in the cause of racial equality and civil rights.

The apartheid government shut down mission institutions and defamed religious proponents of racial equality.

Americans awoke from their uncaring slumbers to rally behind changes in the law that brought new opportunities in the promotion of racial equality.

Also, the Americans who were strongest in the support of racial equality were the usually the ones that were most likely to support civil rights generally.

Most notably, Tommy Lee Jones portrays Thaddeus Stevens, the intensely liberal advocate of racial equality that extols his views in argumentative and hilariously offensive ways.

Stevens argues that his cause must be the pursuit of racial equality, likening it to the «true north» that a compass reveals.

Lincoln humors him, but it becomes clear early in the film that considerations of racial equality are a political nuisance to this president.

Forty - eight years ago, Homer Minus was one of nine black Delaware State College students who followed a young lawyer named Louis L. Redding down the path of racial equality.

It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father - son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality - the black Chinese restaurant.

At JACK SHAINMAN Hank Willis Thomas's archival tour de force, titled «Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915 - 2015,» presents 100 carefully culled print ads that trace the halting progress of feminism and — by omitting nonwhite women — the even more dispiriting state of racial equality in this country (513 West 20th Street, through May 23).

A relationship of racial equality is not one in which Indigenous people take their place, as just another interest group, among a vast range of non-Indigenous interest groups that might be affected by native title or other Indigenous issues.

A half - century after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, some Southland officials and academics say that impressive strides have been made regionally in terms of racial equality, while significant obstacles remain.

In the 1940s,»50s and»60s, when race relations were considered poor, and legislation like the Race Relations Acts of 1965 and»68 were passed, one could see there was some logic in ensuring government adhered to the principle of racial equality it had legislated for.

NYLPI is a not - for - profit civil rights law firm that focuses on issues of racial equality and disability rights.

The principle of racial equality, at least on the face of the law, took hold in numerous ways, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Convention on Genocide, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.