12 sentences with 'equality'
Example sentences and phrases with the word equality and other words derived from it.
• « The Jewish religion was the first to accept a truly egalitarian element in its ethic; no other people had proposed the idea of the essential equality of all human beings (although some aspects of the Egyptian religion came close). »
• « Of all the legacies of Judaism, this may be the most important, although it would take until the modern era for political movements to take up the idea of essential equality and translate it into a concrete social, legal and political system. »
• « Monotheism and the concept of the essential spiritual equality of human beings began as beliefs among a small minority of people in the ancient world, but would become hugely influential in the long run. »
• « If Greek society was nothing like today's concepts of justice or equality, what was it that led to this era being considered "classical"? The answer is that it was during the Classical Age that the Greeks reached some of their greatest intellectual and cultural achievements. »
• « The initial assertion that all citizens should be equal before the law seemed straightforward enough until the Assembly had to decide whether that equality extended to those other than the people who had had a monopoly on political representation of any kind for most of French history: Catholic male property owners. »
• « At the same time, while the idea of legal equality for Jews was virtually unthinkable before the Revolution, the logic of equality seemed to gain its own momentum in the course of 1789 - 1791, with French Jews gaining their rights as French citizens in September 1791. »
• « Once again, however, the logic of equality worked inexorably to disrupt centuries-old political hierarchies. »
• « Likewise, with his armies Napoleon "exported" the Revolution to the rest of Europe, undermining the power of the traditional nobility and instituting a code of laws based on the principle of legal equality. »
• « They knew that there would have to be some concessions to a generation of people who had lived with equality before the law, but they worked to reinforce traditional political structures while granting only limited compromises. »
• « Conservatism was totally opposed to the idea of universal legal equality, let alone suffrage (i.e. the right to vote), and basically amounted to an attempt to maintain a legal political hierarchy to accompany the existing social and economic hierarchy in European society. »
• « The Enlightenment thinkers had first proposed the ideas of social and legal equality that took shape in the American and French Revolutions. »
• « The struggle for the vote was closely aligned with other feminist campaigns. Indeed, it would be misleading to say that first-wave feminism focused primarily on suffrage, as feminists saw suffrage itself as only one component of what was needed to achieve women's equality. »