The carpet-baggers in general were in favor of social equality, but most of them thought it much more important that the spoils be secured first.
If any degree of social equality should be granted, there would be no end to it; political equality was necessarily involved.
If you give the ballot to women, won't you make the black and white woman equal politically and therefore lay the foundation for a future claim of social equality?
It is that the Southern whites misapprehend and make a scarecrow of "social equality.
Social equality," he said in effect, "is a humbug.
I'm not sure but we shall have to go back to the old idea of considering the churches places of worship, and not opportunities for sewing-societies, and the cultivation of social equality.
Here, then, is laid bare the nerve of the whole matter: Is the South justified in this absolute denial of social equality to the Negro, no matter what his virtues or abilities or accomplishments?
If social equality must be resolutely denied him forever, if he is to be treated as an outcast and a pariah because of his race and the weight of inheritance which he can never shake off from his shoulders, what hope remains?
Preposterous, indeed, is this doctrine that personal excellence is the true standard, and that only such Negroes as attain a certain grade of merit should or would be admitted to social equality.
Why is there such intense emphasis placed upon this issue of social equality?
If that is social equality, then, resolved that we strive for social equality.
It is foolish then to demand the concession of social equality; but it is quite as cowardly to give up obtaining it, as long as an upward way exists.
If, then, his government be an oppression at all, it is because his state of civilization, and the relative circumstances of his condition, have acquired for him the rights of social equality and the rights of political sovereignty.
Of his acquired rights, we see that on certain conditions he is entitled to social equality; and that on certain further conditions, he is entitled to the right of political sovereignty.
Back in his native land, the Indian finds that he belongs to a subject race, and that the British garrison will neither admit him to social equality, nor permit him the right of legislation.
The project was clearly to set up a new order of things founded on social equality--a theory which in the whole history of the Middle Ages appears for the first time in connection with this movement.
This question of social equality," remarked Percy, "has probably been the cause of more misunderstanding between the North and the South than all other questions relating to the negro problem.
Of course there is no suggestion of social equality or social intercourse in this, but there is a much closer relationship than is common or would be allowed in the North.
Today the President has received many messages from Southern men, urging him to pay no attention to the yawp of the bourbon editors, who have not been able to get over the old habit of historical discussion of "social equality.
Friendship tends to social equality and to the levelling of ranks.
And if admitted to political, then surely to social equality also.
He was unaware that by my ride and conversation in the car, I had forfeited my "social equality" with him.
He was a colored porter, and I may have transgressed the laws of "social equality" in asking him aught other than to make up the berth, and to call me early.
In social equality, emulation consists in accomplishing under like conditions; it is its own reward.
Only, on the hypothesis just made, inasmuch as the strong cannot be prevented from using all their advantages, the inconveniences of natural inequality would reappear in the very bosom of social equality.
The idea of social equality, even in individual fortunes, has in all ages besieged, like a vague presentiment, the human imagination.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "social equality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
