Under his leadership, the NAACP held rallies and funded programs across the country to enable young African American to stay in school and earn the degrees that would be their passports to social equality and effective citizenship.

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Add to the above Hobbes' repeated insistence that law serve as an instrument for achieving social equality.

除此之外,霍布斯坚决主张,法律应当是维护社会公平和平等的工具。

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This was a radical concept in its day, evidently. The punishment should fit the crime, no more and no less for all free persons--granted slaves are not included--regardless of social class. Equality before the law.

很显然，这是当时最根本的概念，惩罚应该,与罪行相符，不偏向任何自由人，不顾社会阶级,当然奴隶除外，法律面前人人平等。

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Another category of difference would be religious believers versus non-believers, non-members of the community. In some religious traditions, ideas of caste and social location make certain people very different in terms of the understanding of human equality.

另外一类区别在于,信仰者和非信仰者也就是，非宗教团体成员之间，在有些宗教传统中，种姓和社会地位,使一些人显得非常不同,这从他们对人的平等的理解可以看出来。

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