Sentences with phrase «social equality as»

The service focused as much on social equality as on personal salvation and speakers talked about issues facing the community.

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He suggests companies could focus on spreading positive social media messages on topics such as gender equality.

Should entrepreneurs focus solely on growing their business or also be concerned about social causes such as sustainability, women's empowerment, equality or the local economy?

The term «social justice» used to be associated with words such as «equality», «compassion» and «tolerance».

The Indian National Congress has also been formed as the political expression of the awakening of the people under the leadership of the class with western - oriented education; and linked to the politics of nationalism was also movements of social reform of family relations and caste structures on the basis of personal liberty and social equality.

But they conceive of justice in the sense of equality, in a social sense, as requiring more equitable division of consumers» goods.

So far as they act like the others — even to forward social justice, equality, etc. — I say that there is no sense and nothing specifically Christian in acting like the others.

It refers to the Labour Party as a «movement» fighting for social justice and social equality.

The liberal elite who occupy the positions of influence in deciding cases under human rights or equality laws tend to use them as a tool to achieve the results that conform to the fashionable values they have absorbed or which prevail in the social environments in which they live, are educated and work.

As this parody of what she really was, she inspires great art, but she also stands as an obstacle to female social equality by helping perpetuate a stereotype which, whether it is shamed or glorified, demeans womanhooAs this parody of what she really was, she inspires great art, but she also stands as an obstacle to female social equality by helping perpetuate a stereotype which, whether it is shamed or glorified, demeans womanhooas an obstacle to female social equality by helping perpetuate a stereotype which, whether it is shamed or glorified, demeans womanhood.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Virginia Mollenkott, for example, in her article «Evangelicalism: A Feminist Perspective,» defines herself as a feminist, one willing «to implement the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.»

He highlighted Britain's achievements as a «pluralist democracy which places great value on freedom of speech, freedom of political affiliation and respect for the rule of law, with a strong sense of the individual's rights and duties, and of the equality of all citizens before the law and noted that there was much in common here with Catholic social teaching.

In spite of much that still needs to be done, we had better rejoice and be thankful, not only for more comfortable living with the vast range of things technology has produced, but for more recognition of race and sex equality and advances toward implementation of these principles; better education; better health; minimum wage, unemployment and social security provisions; and a large network of social agencies that we sometimes fume at as being bureaucratic and expensive but which few of us would want to see abolished.

Second, one might view this as a post-socialist era for theoretical reasons: Given the historical record of socialism in this century, one can say with some assurance that all the claims made for it have been decisively falsified» be it in terms of economic performance, of political liberation, of social equality, or of the quality of life.

Both as scientists and as Christians we have reasons to work for a social order providing the maximum freedom consistent with the operation of justice and equality.

She's outlined her main priority as changing social attitudes towards LGBT people and creating equality.

And, as the prophets later saw, all this presented two focal points of peril to the best traditions that had come from the desert: it substituted for the old austerity the alluring licentiousness of baal worship, and it sanctioned the commercial inequalities and tyrannies, which the baals of sophisticated Canaan sponsored against the ancient ideas of social solidarity, equality, and justice for which Yahweh stood.

As tyrannical kingship had taken the place of paternal chieftainship and a stratified society based on slave labor had crowded out earlier equality, so the social organization of Israel continued to take form from the patterns of the day.

But the opponents of natural determinism lump Wilson, Dawkins, and Herrnstein and Murray together as the enemies of equality and the commitment to make the world a much better place by the achievement of social justice.

In these interpretations the law recognizes a formal concept of equality that is related to the perception of inequality as a form of social differentiation which can and should be corrected.

We need to appreciate the positive contributions of existing social structures as well as to be sensitive to their failures to embody the principles of freedom and equality.

But traditional Hindu metaphysics, as P.T. Raju points out, has been preoccupied with moksha, the ultimate realization of oneness and equality of all in the Spirit, mostly forgetting that it is necessary to bring witness of oneness and equality within the social structures created for the human pursuit of wealth (artha), temporal happiness (kama) and duty (dharma).

Taken broadly, equality is incoherent as a measure of social justice.

Silver then referenced Bill Russell, who was sitting in the front row, as someone who has led the charge in the NBA even in decades past to promote social and racial equality.

This groundbreaking children's series features topics such as adoption, gender equality, identity, social emotional development and belonging, all through the lens of a young girl who is a huge Star Wars fan.

First — challenges are not going to stop until we improve social equality between the sexes and feminine traits are no longer seen as inferior.

This presents a challenge for those who want to see employee ownership as a more widespread ownership model, or who see it as an ownership model that promotes greater social solidarity and economic equality.

Personalised exchange between social unequals has been viewed as either a perversion of liberalism's central tenets of equality and freedom of choice or as a screen concealing exploitation.

Social media provided a particularly public venue, and as a Facebook analysis of the demographics of the burst of equality activism noted,

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

Here it presents Rawls and Dworkin as representatives of a social liberal tradition that values income equality in itself.

Said President Weah: «Article 7 — The Republic shall, consistent with the principles of individual freedom and social justice enshrined in this Constitution, manage the national economy and the natural resources of Liberia in such manner as shall ensure the maximum feasible participation of Liberian citizens under conditions of equality, so as to advance the general welfare of the Liberian people and the economic development of Liberia.»

Centrist would see that social equality is balanced and to such extent would find White Nationalism unappealing and wrong as it puts one man on top of another due to simple birth factors.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

I said that social democrats - maybe the Labour party in Britain especially - had gradually reduced their use of various tools for increasing equality - trade unionism, income redistribution, changes in ownership structures - and as a result looked increasingly to education to carry their egalitarian hopes.

They fought for social change and equality for marginalized Hispanics and minorities in general, and they identified themselves as radical nationalists.

Harriet Harman, the Equalities minister, wants a new law to put «the persistent inequality of social class» on the same footing as discrimination on grounds of race, gender, sexuality or disability.

The research project is the springboard for a workshop on LGBT equalities, which will take place in London on November 6 as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science.

Actually, to the opposite, many regimes explicitly derive their legitimacy from being committed to maintaining a social system that ensures inequality, e.g. Apartheid South Africa, the Confederate State of America (racial inequality), and Soviet Russia (in this case, the ruling proletariat class ruling over all other classes; the Russian Revolution did NOT attempt to create a state with equality as many think).

Whereas, this day also asks for our renewed commitment to the broader philosophy upheld by Dr. King, including civil liberty, social equality, and community service, as these are fundamental to an open and inclusive society; and

A «Social Liberal» who has come to us because they see the Labour Party as having sold out and puts equality and redistribution above all else and pursues a radical socialist recipes in the clear knowledge that they will decrease liberty, surely shouldn't be welcome?A broad church should be welcomed, a skewed church should not.

A «Social Liberal» who is in the party to try and promote equality and redistribution while allowing people to retain as much liberty as possible should be welcome in the Lib Dems.

Historically Labour has seen the British state as a mechanism for promoting equality and common social entitlements.

A reformer who won the lion's share of labor endorsements in the race, including that of the Working Families Party, Torres was supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who ousted disgraced and jailed incumbent Pedro Espada, Jr. in 2010, as well as by the Bronx's most popular elected official, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (who has broken with his father on social issues like LGBT rights and marriage equality).

As he made clear in his acceptance speech, he believes first and foremost in «equality» and in government's moral responsibility to enforce it: not the social mobility which Labour figures like Blair and Alan Milburn championed, but the full - blooded egalitarianism you would have expected to hear advocated at a Fabian conference in the Sixties.

«No matter which continent Gaga happens to be in today,» the Manhattan borough president, mayoral hopeful, and Germanotta family friend tells the Daily News, «she remains an Upper West Sider at heart» as well as a «social justice activist and a real leader for marriage equality in this country.»

But, as Finucane's academic interests began to take shape, she found herself drawn to pure mathematics, which she saw «as pretty remote from the questions of economic equality and social justice and so forth,» she says.

It's actually enriching as an artist, no matter what it is, whether environmental issues or social justice issues, equality or education, etc..

The dictionary defines feminism as «the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.»