Foner argues that Lincoln was a moderate in the middle, opposing slavery primarily because it violated the republicanism principles of the Founding Fathers, especially the equality of all men and democratic self-government as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

Its policies include the legal equality of all men, the citizen's right to own property and opposition to dictatorship.

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.

The Christian egalitarian view holds that the Bible teaches the fundamental equality of women and men of all racial and ethnic mixes, all economic classes, and all age groups, based on the teachings and example of Jesus Christ and the overarching principles of scripture.

In addition to an expanding welfare system, which since World War II had come to provide them with substantial assistance in the area of childbearing and child-rearing, women had made notable legislative gains that brought them closer to full equality with men.

Her publications emphasized that women and men are different, but this shouldn ’ t stop them from equality under the law.

Christian feminism is an aspect of feminist theology which seeks to advance and understand the equality of men and women morally, socially, spiritually, and in leadership from a Christian perspective.

From the beginning the BDF was a bourgeois organization, its members working toward equality with men in such areas as education, financial opportunities, and political life.

In addition, there was an insistence on women being allowed to participate in the Order in " perfect equality " with men, in contrast to the S. R. I. A.

Rousseau, a deteriorationist, proposed that, except perhaps for brief moments of balance, at or near its inception, when a relative equality among men prevailed, human civilization has always been artificial, creating inequality, envy, and unnatural desires.

In one direction at least Rousseau ’ s influence was a steady one: he discredited force as a basis for the State, convinced men that authority was legitimate only when founded in rational consent and that no arguments from passing expediency could justify a government in disregarding individual freedom or in failing to promote social equality.

Invoking " science " and " realism ", the two men derided their " philanthropic " predecessors for believing in human equality and for not recognizing that mankind was divided into superior and inferior races.

Militant feminists expressed their disdain with an inherently sexist and patriarchal society, and concluded the most effective way to overcome sexism and attain the equality of women would be to deny men any power or pleasure from women.

As equality was a priority for lesbian-feminists, disparity of roles between men and women or butch and femme were viewed as patriarchal.

The sociologist Regina Oboler examined the role of gender in the U. S. Pagan community, arguing that although the movement had been constant in its support for the equality of men and women ever since its foundation, there was still an essentialist view of gender engrained within it, with female deities being accorded traditional western feminine traits and male deities being similarly accorded what western society saw as masculine traits.

" Charles H. McIlwain likewise observes that " the idea of the equality of men is the profoundest contribution of the Stoics to political thought " and that " its greatest influence is in the changed conception of law that in part resulted from it.

Reform Judaism believes in the equality of men and women.

The equality of women and men is a central tenet and hallmark of Reconstructionist Judaism.

It was on this basis that Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan called for the full equality of women and men, despite the obvious difficulties reconciling this stance with norms of traditional Jewish practice.

The Sandinistas were particularly advantageous for the women of Nicaraguan as they promoted progressive views on gender as early as 1969 claiming that the revolution would " abolish the detestable discrimination that women have suffered with regard to men and establish economic, political and cultural equality between men and women.

Sikh history is built on examples of brave men and women who defended an ideology built on the fundamentals of human rights and equality of all human beings.

• address equality of opportunity for all men and women and include the needs and priorities of people with disability in development activities ( full text of Partnership agreement )

* Seneca proclaims the equality of all men, including slaves.

Spartan women enjoyed considerably more rights and equality to men than elsewhere in the classical world.

" Freedom of contract is a qualified and not an absolute right ...," Hughes declared in upholding an Iowa law that voided contracts limiting the legal rights of railroad workers: The state may " interfere where the parties do not stand upon an equality ...." Using similar reasoning, the associate justice upheld a California law that mandated a forty-eight-hour work-week for women in various industries and allowed a federal statute to override a contract between an interstate railroad and its employees.

The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Gallery, a permanent installation set within the restored former Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital building that now forms part of the new UNISON Centre, uses a variety of media to set the story of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, her hospital, and women ’ s struggle to achieve equality in the field of medicine within the wider framework of 19th and 20th century social history.

In 1972 the Council for Equality was established to advise lawmakers on methods for realizing full legal equality for women.

The Equality Law that went into effect in 1987 committed the country to achieving full equality for women.

The emphasis was to be equality for everyone, rather than protection for women.

" Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema " was composed during the period of second-wave feminism, which was concerned with achieving equality for women in the workplace, and with exploring the psychological implications of sexual stereotypes.

A feminist is " an advocate or supporter of the rights and equality of women ".

She was herself very active in the movement, and had campaigned for equality and the acceptance of women as preachers.

For about the next 10 years, the country saw a steady process of secular Westernization through Atatürk's Reforms, which included the unification of education ; the discontinuation of religious and other titles ; the closure of Islamic courts and the replacement of Islamic canon law with a secular civil code modeled after Switzerland's and a penal code modeled after the Italian Penal Code ; recognition of the equality between the sexes and the granting of full political rights to women on 5 December 1934 ; the language reform initiated by the newly founded Turkish Language Association ; replacement of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with the new Turkish alphabet derived from the Latin alphabet ; the dress law ( the wearing of a fez, is outlawed ); the law on family names ; and many others.

They also prohibited usury and took a number of measures in favor of women's rights, by declaring equality of the sexes and introducing women to political life.

Marxists such as Clara Zetkin and Alexandra Kollontai however, though supporters of radical social equality for women, opposed feminism on the grounds that it was a bourgeois ideology.

This act was introduced as part of a concerted effort to bring about equality for women in the workplace.

These women helped secure the bridge that translated radical protest for racial equality over to the struggle for women ’ s rights ; by witnessing the discrimination and oppression to which the black population was subjected, they were able to gain strength and motivation to do the same for their fellow women.

As the South begins another school year, national and even world attention is directed at the region's slow progress toward racial equality in the public schools.

In Aristotle this is categorized as the difference between ' arithmetic ' and ' geometric ' ( i. e. proportional ) equality.

It is the first creed in which the equality of the three persons of the Trinity is explicitly stated, and differs from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan and Apostles ' Creeds in the inclusion of anathemas, or condemnations of those who disagree with the Creed ( like the original Nicene Creed ).

In 1929, Mojżesz Presburger showed that the theory of natural numbers with addition and equality ( now called Presburger arithmetic in his honor ) is decidable and gave an algorithm that could determine if a given sentence in the language was true or false.

Psychologist Felicia Pratto and her colleagues have found evidence to support the idea that a high Social Dominance Orientation ( SDO ) is strongly correlated with conservative political views, and opposition to social engineering to promote equality, though Pratto's findings have been highly controversial.

It is the first creed in which the equality of the three persons of the Trinity is explicitly stated, and differs from the Nicene and Apostles ' Creeds in the inclusion of anathemas, or condemnations of those who disagree with the Creed.

Others consider that Christ made the commandments to " love God and one's neighbour ," and to " love one's neighbour as oneself " touchstones of the moral law ; that these imply a radical equality, and that, by this principle of equality, the Law of Moses is to be adjusted or even abrogated.

Clement argues for the absolute equality of sexes, on the grounds that salvation is extended to all of mankind equally.

Some Christians believe that gender equality is appropriate for Christian marriages and that the spouses share equal responsibility within the family.

There is considerable debate among many Christians today — not just Protestants — whether equality of husband and wife or male headship is the biblically ordained view, and even if it is biblically permissible.

The equality of the derivative of ƒ taken along the two axes is

While there is no universally accepted definition of " democracy ," equality and freedom have both been identified as important characteristics of democracy since ancient times.

The term " democracy " is sometimes used as shorthand for liberal democracy, which is a variant of representative democracy that may include elements such as political pluralism ; equality before the law ; the right to petition elected officials for redress of grievances ; due process ; civil liberties ; human rights ; and elements of civil society outside the government.

Here variables are still supposed to be integral, but some coefficients may be irrational numbers, and the equality sign is replaced by upper and lower bounds.

By many, education is understood to be a means of overcoming handicaps, achieving greater equality and acquiring wealth and status for all ( Sargent 1994 ).

The equality equivalence relation is the finest equivalence relation on any set, while the trivial relation that makes all pairs of elements related is the coarsest.

The distance from any point P on the ellipse to the focus F is a constant fraction of that point's perpendicular distance to the directrix resulting in the equality, e = PF / PD.