It is even claimed that the Catholic Church has always supported women's civil equality (a patent untruth).

She became an "ultra", advocating not only the abolition of slavery, but also full civil equality for blacks.

Kossuth's aspiration was to build a modern democratic, liberal state with a constitution, ensuring civil equality.

That, he asserted, would "harm the continuation of the peace process and the march of the Arab population to achieve civil equality."

However, in his later life, Clark advocated some degree of civil (if not spiritual) equality for blacks.

Through the church, his parents taught him many morals and beliefs, one of which regarded civil equality.

By doing so, the 1960's civil rights laws created a genuine incongruity: They used the power to regulate the economy to guarantee civil equality.

Now the programme was justified in different terms: civil equality, personal liberty, the rights of property, and freedom of contract.

In the case of discrimination against women in Kuwait and Afghanistan, it is the right to civil equality.

During the early 20th century, English women achieved civil equality, in theory.