How To Use Civil right In A Sentence
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It's all a lot of fuss and nonsense got up by some pesky civil rights activists, some of whom you can find here at Stand.
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In addition to receiving the best education that the South could offer blacks at that time, Ella inherited a powerful sense of service that made her civil rights efforts extraordinarily unselfish and untiring.
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Words regarding the necessity to change the souls of human beings to effect real change in the world should not be interpreted to mean that black religious leaders were adopting a quietistic approach to civil rights.
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Sitting in the chairs for a shapeup this week are freelance writer Jimi Izrael, syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette, civil rights attorney and editor Arsalan Iftikhar, and NPR's political editor Ken Rudin.
'Shop Talk': The Political Witchunt For Christine O'Donnell
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At the end of the draft, the platform spells out the traditional Democratic support for fighting discrimination and protecting civil rights.
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These ideas resurfaced again in the American civil rights movement.
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Don't you agree that Malcolm X definitely has a place in the pantheon of black civil rights heroes?
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Neither is Powell slated to be the Attorney General, where he may choose the civil rights czar, who carves the policy groove on race in the Justice Department.
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Again and again he declared that he would vigorously enforce laws which he abominates, on civil rights, abortion rights, gay rights, etc.
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The contrast between the anarchical images of vandalism in Seattle and Genoa and the dignified demeanor of civil rights demonstrators forty years before is striking.
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America is a great country - from the master of slavery to a champion of civil rights and a defender of liberty and freedom, America is a symbol of great human spirit and justice. Dr T.P.Chia
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War and the civil rights movement gave her a purpose, and that when they came to an end she was left floundering.
Times, Sunday Times
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AP - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage against an Islamic civil rights group over its use of a portion of his show in which he called the Quran a "book of hate.
Undefined
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A panel of lawyers, academics, consultants, writers and civil rights activists selected the winners.
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The Mississippi civil rights law, passed in 1865, contained the standard language: “All freedmen, free Negroes and mulattoes, who do now and have heretofore lived and cohabited together as husband and wife shall be taken and held in law as legally married.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Hand held speed cameras are deployed to facilitate enforcement evidence aimed at the minority of cyclists who flout the rules and who react in an aggressive manner, usually bewailing the breaching of their civil rights.
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The anti-abortion lobby argues that a fetus is a person who is entitled to civil rights.
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Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril.
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The advisory from the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, to be made public Tuesday, does not break new legal ground, officials said.
U.S. campaign takes on anti-gay bullying in school
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If SB-1070 ends up exacerbating racial profiling, as many have predicted is likely, it will also open local police agencies up to a slew of lawsuits related to potential civil rights abuses.
Think Progress » Huckabee: New Law Will Open Arizona Up To A ‘Lawsuit Bonanza’
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July 28th, 2009 12: 11 pm ET for all of you who label southerns as racist better check your history the area that had the most problems in busing was your boston from that liberal state of mass. also a lot of dems like byrd and gores daddy where part of the kkk and without republician help lbj great society and civil rights bills would not have pased. all you who pass judgement on southerns just do not have a clue you are self seving elitest who are just plain ignorant of the facts i have lived in the midwest south and northeast those from the northeast are the worst as far as being self serving and judgemental
Voinovich: The GOP's 'being taken over by Southerners'
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In the past, civil rights groups have criticized the redistricting process for working against immigrant and African-American communities on Long Island, and while lawsuits have sought to address the problem on a case-by-case basis, electoral representation in communities of color will be a pressing issue in the coming weeks.
Ted Hesson: Forum: Redistricting and Its Impact on Long Island Communities of Color
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Are students or teachers who bring successful civil rights lawsuits entitled to recover their attorneys' fees?
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In the 1950s and 1960s, the center equivocated during the great battles for civil rights.
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America is a great country - from the master of slavery to a champion of civil rights and a defender of liberty and freedom, America is a symbol of great human spirit and justice. Dr T.P.Chia
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State Director for IUE, I continued my involvement in the Civil Rights movement, in the political movement, and they were involved with migrants and that is when I first became involved with what we call the eastern stream of migrants, but not very heavily involved.
Oral History Interview with Jim Pierce, July 16, 1974. Interview E-0012-3. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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LBJ may not have done as much in foreign affairs as Reagan, but noses him out for 3rd spot in "consequentiality" for the permanent impact of Great Society, Civil Rights legislation, NASA, and elevating liberalism and reform to institutions an ongoing operation.
Harvard sociology prof Orlando Patterson sees racism in Hillary's 3 a.m. ad.
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Civil rights activist Barbara Arnwine says King's speech gave hope to so many.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity---Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights activist.
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And we must use the� strength of this women’s commission and the strength� of the United Nations to end that war, to end the war� against the civil rights of women and the human rights� of women, and our children and people everywhere.
Remarks by Bella Abzug at the 42nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
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Undoubtedly Ronald Dworkin will want to correct what seems like a clear error when he writes, "Only the most naïve theories of statutory construction could argue that such a result [forbidding action such as that taken by the University of California, Davis Medical School] is required by
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Bakke Case: An Exchange
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For many years, it has been the progressive movement that has championed advances in every level of American society -- from Social Security and Medicare to civil rights, equality of opportunity and freedom of choice. 2008 was a watershed election, an outcry from a large majority of Americans (not a tiny bunch of Tea Party extremists) for a fundamental change in the politics of our country.
Hoyt Hilsman: Rooting for the Tea Party?
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As a civil rights leader, he was always out front.
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America is a great country - from the master of slavery to a champion of civil rights and a defender of liberty and freedom, America is a symbol of great human spirit and justice. Dr T.P.Chia
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The State's population consist of poor white people who left the mideastern states during the civil rights movement and took their racial hate with them and profited. js ... santee calif
Arizona lawmakers still pushing 'birther' measure
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It is designed to halt vote-buying and corruption, attract better people to government and strengthen protection of human and civil rights.
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Plenty of countries rightly 'meddled' in the affairs of the United States when they saw black children being blown down by powerful water hoses and attacked by dogs at civil rights marches.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Spectator of the Free World: Obama and Iran
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Thus, some obscurities and confusions in Chappell's account mirror the reality of the civil rights struggle itself.
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Preferential racial quotas in education violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 39.
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If you look to Kennedy’s 1963 civil rights speech, you’ll note that the civil rights act was very much a bismarckian reform in that it as much a response to fear of violent revolt for equal rights as it was a benevolent act to improve the status of a minority group.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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The law cannot be used to force people to be sterilized; it would violate their civil rights.
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Do you think that if Hip hop was around in the 30's 40 and 50's as oppose to Dr. King in his movement that we would be sitting in a so-called desegregated society and we would have seen the the kind of civil rights legislation we saw.
SOHH Blogs
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At this point the debate over the civil rights bill merged into a wider national debate concerning the legitimacy of reverse discrimination.
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The candidate nailed his colours to the mast on the question of civil rights.
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The issue is then to discern the categorical imperatives of a federative government, such as natural and civil rights.
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In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
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It was not until Harry S Truman added civil rights to the 1948 party platform - under pressure from the mayor of Minneapolis, Hubert Humphrey - and desegrated the armed forces that the Democrats were identified with the civil rights movement.
January 2004
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However, attitudes toward the civil rights of gay people might be directly related to measures of out-group derogation.
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Many nations in Africa, which have seen a boom in oil exploration during the past 5 years, simultaneously experience a decline in both human rights and financial equality as "strongmen" leaders have used the oil wealth for personal gain, and limited civil rights to remain in power.
John Gartner: Increase in Renewables Aids Human Rights
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Martin Luther King Jr. was the major leader of the civil rights movement in the Untied States, not an unfettered Roman Catholic cleric.
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Odd how no traditional civil rights or liberal black leader stepped forth to champion her cause.
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The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission
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I pause, then say in a singsongy voice, “You know how much you like civil rights stuff.”
Ten Miles Past Normal
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In fact, the brief fifteen year history of the Third Reich and Hitler's persecution of the Jews was like playing patty-cake compared to what happened in the southern colonies and later states between 1700 and 1965 (the Civil Rights Act; may God bless Lyndon Johnson's soul).
Apology not accepted, lawmaker says of McDonnell
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His courage in defending religious and civil rights inspired many outside the church.
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It all adds up to a strong presumption that unless there's a clear family resemblance to the civil rights movement, civil disobedience is simply beyond the pale.
Christianity Today
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The recipient of daily death threats, the civil rights leader clearly had good reason to carry around a gun to defend himself.
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His actions provoked severe criticism from civil rights groups.
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I'm not a heavy smoker, but I think it's an infringement of my civil rights.
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He then organized a successful effort to channel the energies of civil rights activists into the politically preferable voting rights arena.
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Why, you may ask, do we non-believers take a moment out of our lives once a year to honor a man who is popularly known as a devote Christian who became a civil rights hero?
Planet Atheism
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This liberty is a civil right protected by a political constitution.
Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
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In their zeal to catch drug dealers, police have ignored citizens' basic civil rights.
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He then organized a successful effort to channel the energies of civil rights activists into the politically preferable voting rights arena.
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It further provided that our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, any more that our opinions in physics of geometry; and it concluded that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whasoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief.
Denis Lacorne: Rick Perry's War On The Founding Fathers
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These ideas resurfaced again in the American civil rights movement.
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In film portrayals of African Americans, by the early 1970s, the sexless and self-sacrificing characters played by Sidney Poitier during the civil rights era had been replaced by hypersexual superheroes who had achieved spectacular wealth by means other than “working for the Man.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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He talked about the civil rights movement, the need for political engagement, careful analysis, honest leadership.
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He pledged that his administration would defend the principle of states' rights, which augured poorly for civil rights enforcement.
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A child of the civil rights movement, she attended integrated schools and sends her son to one of Atlanta's tony private academies.
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This was 1971, so these were peaceniks, civil rights activists, and anti-war activists.
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The HCR bill and upcoming energy, climate and immigration issues as well as civil rights for gays, assumes that a truce is possible in this war.
Matthew Yglesias » The Rise of the Filibuster
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So let's see, all the Dixiecrats that left the Democratic party due to blacks and civil rights to become republicans, now will return to the democratic party of abortion and gay rights.
Will Dem House Takeover Spark Future GOP Defections?
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Mormons and schools all Americans on the unconstitutional craze of doling out civil rights by popular vote: Hark! From sea to rising sea, crafty Christians are busy putting the "tut" -- and "con" -- back in "Constitution"!
WN.com - Business News
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His actions provoked severe criticism from civil rights groups.
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As an African American clergywoman, I also see gay rights as a civil rights issue.
A Change Has Come: A Clergy's Response to the New York Vote for Gay Marriage
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Clinton named a new assistant attorney general for civil rights, Deval Patrick, who persuaded the administration to switch sides.
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deprivation of civil rights
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, an American non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to combating bigotry, wrote in a recent report that " ... certain Americans, who have been prodded into paranoia by clever activists, opportunistic politicians and guileful media players, seem downright eager to deny Muslims the guarantees of religious freedom and the presumption of innocence.
Parvez Ahmed: Muslims In America At The 10th Anniversary Of 9/11
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ever, there was an effort to raise funds for civil rights campaigns, Duane managed to wheedle a four-figure check from his mother.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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That ruling had drawn sharp criticism from civil rights groups.
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A new report by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund was released yesterday showing a close correlation between the increase in vitriol rhetoric associated with the immigration debate and a troubling rise in hate crimes against Hispanics and those “perceived” as immigrants.
Wonk Room » The WonkLine: June 17, 2009
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And then the Vietnam War heated up after that, along with civil rights, etc., and TV became the real conveyor of the narrative here.
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For the better security of these new-born civil rights we are now about to pass the greatest and the grandest act in this series of acts that have emancipated a race and disinthralled a nation.
History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
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London (CNN) -- Rousing speeches by gifted orators such as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were crucial to the struggle for civil rights in America.
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Unfortunately this b! tch is trying to deny fellow Americans their civil rights so beating her is about our only option.
Think Progress » Gays Are More Dangerous Than Guns In Florida
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In his opposition to civil rights legislation, he might be called the original “tenther” -- that is, a serial quoter of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which reserves for the states all powers not expressly granted to the Federal government, with which he justified hamstringing all efforts by Washington to rectify social or economic injustice.
Steve Fraser: History's Mad Hatters: The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism
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The director of the civil rights group said blanket bans cause unacceptable breaches of innocent people's human rights.
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One of the candidates has shown a commitment to progressive politics and championing civil rights issues.
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The government should revise its definition of anti-social behaviour and target crimes such as war, racism, corporate greed, environmental abuse, union busting, civil rights abuses, and arms dealing.
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Defenders of civil rights need to mount a vigilant guard.
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America is a great country - from the master of slavery to a champion of civil rights and a defender of liberty and freedom, America is a symbol of great human spirit and justice. Dr T.P.Chia
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Civil rights groups say the death penalty is an anachronism for a modern nation, but Singapore officials have been unswayed by appeals to stop the execution.
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Diplomats denounced the leaders for trampling their citizens' civil rights.
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A month after Seale was indicted in January 2007, the FBI announced a new cold case initiative and published a shortlist of about 100 civil rights era cases that it planned to reprobe.
NPR Topics: News
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The administration hopes to avoid another bruising battle over civil rights.
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The civil legal relation object is not just simple enumeration of civil right object.
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Many of the performers sang labor songs of the 1930s, civil rights songs of the 1960s, peace songs of many decades.
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To what degree did it reflect the callous attitude the government routinely exhibited toward civil rights and antiwar protesters in the course of the 1960s?
Nixon Reconsidered
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Southern police responded to sit-ins and civil rights marches with fire hoses, tear gas, beatings, and arrests.
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Civil rights groups should be helped in these autocracies.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1951, in response to the burgeoning civil rights movement, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, defiantly raised a Confederate flag outside the entrance to its courthouse.
Anna Arceneaux: Louisiana Supreme Court Sees Problems With the Confederate Flag, but Allows It to Wave for Now
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Civil rights and racial equality?
Times, Sunday Times
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his emphasis on civil rights
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Lee was the first Chinese American nominated to head the Civil Rights Division.
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Let us confirm our commitment to all civil rights and let us declare peace a civil right in a democracy, a human right in this world.
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Martin Luther King Jr. African-American Civil Rights activist.
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She's responsible for her organization, of course, but the fact that her PAC misfiled paperwork doesn't bother me ... its her views on Civil rights, the environment, government responsiblities, her views on education, and her involvement with big oil that bothers me.
Palin's PAC forced to correct FEC filing
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Viewing the evolution of civil rights through the lens of legal history, Tsesis considers laws that have restricted civil rights (such as Jim Crow regulations and prohibitions against intermarriage) and laws that have expanded rights (including antisegregation legislation and other legal advances of the civil rights era).
Tsesis on the History of Civil Rights
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One of the more interesting projects on his platter is something referred to as "Selma," in which he will presumably play Alabama Governor George Wallace in a period civil rights story.
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Precious’ Director Lee Daniels And Robert De Niro Are ‘Going To Work Together On Something’ » MTV Movies Blog
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The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is a civil rights act which requires compliance with or conformance to federal law.
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The statue of Etienne Marcel at the City Hall in Paris recalls one of the many instances of the resistance of the city to corrupt administration and it was under one of the most autocratic and greatest of monarchs, Louis XIV, that the Parisian earned the distinctive epithet of 'frondeur' to describe his quickness to resent any encroachment on the part of authority upon his civil rights and liberties.
A Royalist Fiasco
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Civil rights and racial equality?
Times, Sunday Times
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How do you determine which gains where reaped from the civil rights act, and which gains were reaped from the changes in attitudes that permitted the civil rights act?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism
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She resists at first but they slowly gain a rapport from the 1940s into the 1970s as the civil rights movement swirls around them.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar
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South Africa, self-governing after 1910, adopted the racial segregation system known as apartheid which severely limited the civil rights of non-Europeans; only in 1994 were the first non-racial elections held in South Africa.
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Just as in the great civil rights movement forty years ago, we shall overcome.
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You will be born in an America of many posts: post–civil rights, postfeminism, post–cold war.
Nomad
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In fact, the model minority designation heralded upon the AAPI community in 1966 had less to do with celebrating student achievement, and had more to do with reinforcing negative stereotypes of African-American students as underachievers at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Truth About 'Model Minorities'
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Germany observes strict privacy laws and the testing has alarmed civil rights campaigners.
Times, Sunday Times
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During his music years, Gamble did some serious thinking and came to realize that the drive for civil rights brought negative baggage along with it.
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He gained a reputation as being a staunch defender/supporter of civil rights.
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The Supreme Court decision paved the way for further legislation on civil rights.
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In other words, the view is that it is a civil right to not be treated disadvantageously on account of one's race or sex.
Civil Rights
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For them the most important abridgments of civil rights involved private acts of discrimination - by employers who refused to hire blacks or restaurant owners who refused to serve them at lunch counters.
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They experience the slights, stereotypes, and exclusions of racism but civil rights laws have made racial discrimination illegal, and most white Americans embrace the ideal of racial equality.
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Terry’s outrageous public statements - “A man putting his penis in another man’s rectum is not the basis for civil rights,” he said at his first news conference - had two results.
Changing Minds | PopPolitics.com
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I think environmental laws may be at risk by such an amendment (in the Bills of Federalism that was specifically addressed) and should be explicitly allowed here, but civil rights laws do not derive from the Commerce Clause.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Help Draft the Federalism Restoration Amendment
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A new report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, “Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards,” found that charter schools stratify students by race, class, and possibly language, and are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the country.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama is Succeeding
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May 24th, 2006 at 11: 52 pm skippy says: when it comes to giving up civil rights in the name of national security to support an ill-defined war that has no focus or end in sight, skippy is jsut sick and tired of it all.
Think Progress » Bush Administration Uses ‘State Secrets Privilege’ To Escape Accountability
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Even as the southern protest movement achieved its civil rights goals, it also revived feelings of racial consciousness among African Americans.
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In the second sense, ‘discrimination’ means the wrongful denial or abridgement of the civil rights of some persons in a context where others enjoy their full set of rights.
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He brings a deep commitment to civil rights, nurtured in marches in Mississippi while a college student.
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Joan is a Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality.
Pat Mitchell: Joan Halifax, a Fearless Source of Hard-Earned Wisdom
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This isn't even a civil rights issue, it's a * human rights* issue.
I am hated for loving
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In the side of civil rights, Tan Shitong' s advocation raised the curtain of a fierce competition between bourgeoisie ideology of democratic rights and the monarchism.
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With Prop 8 passing in California and various other civil rights-restricting ballot initiatives passing elsewhere, direct democracy (or more accurately, a hybrid of direct democracy and representative government called "codetermination") has been receiving a strong rejection by the gay community nationwide this year.
Gay Congressman-elect calls for more, better, and national ballot initiatives
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‘The nation's top law enforcer cannot be someone who vacillates between civil rights and Civil War fantasies,’ Jackson wrote.
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No other civil rights movement would allow a hate monger to spew their viciousness on their own show on national television.
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During the civil rights struggle, a little black girl is chosen to integrate an elementary school.
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As a civil rights leader, he was always out front.
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In a later essay in 1980, I noted the major role of fortuity in civil rights gains and why those gains tended to be fleeting even when enunciated in terms of permanence.
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The Association has issued a number of legal briefs to support the civil rights of individuals.
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That ruling had drawn sharp criticism from civil rights groups.
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He divided the prize money evenly among five organizations devoted to civil rights and peace.
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That deputy violated my civil rights, demeaned my character, and has done serious damage to my dignity.
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Like many others joining the march, Cain has been a longtime fighter for civil rights.
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The institute, incorporated in 1987, is devoted to developing leadership among Detroit's young people and initiating them into the struggle for civil rights.
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Their undertaking was a powerful show of force, and it created new momentum for civil rights in Washington and nationwide.
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Indeed, after several days of rioting, white business and government leaders sat down with the civil rights leader and signed an agreement that allowed blacks full access to commercial and public spaces in the city and desegregated jobs in downtown stores.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Thus, the great civil rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s developed independently of the labor movement.
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Civil Liberty: We believe also in protest against the curtailment of our civil rights.
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Propertyrights is a fundamental civil rights, for the common interests, public power can expropriate and limit it by law, but it should be given administrative compensation.
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Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer made famous the phrase, "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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I spent the time interning with the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights.
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In relation to natural persons, their capacity for civil rights and civil acts will be governed by the law of the habitual residence of the natural person.
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The civil rights group Liberty, which analysed clauses from the new Immigration and Citizenship Bill, called them an attempt to introduce compulsory ID cards by the back door.
Archive 2008-12-01
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Significantly, the achievements and failures of the civil rights movement correspond with the desires and antipathies expressed in contemporary African American culture.
A Renegade History of the United States
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King's civil rights movement had begun to challenge the deep racism in the South in the mid-1950s.
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By 1836 he began studying medicine, insisting upon civil rights, and preaching professional training for African Americans rather than barbering or manual labor suggestive of servant or second-class status.
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In some states paralegals and law clerks that work on civil rights and civil litigation cases are paid more than attorneys who represent indigents in capital cases.
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The August 28, 1963 March on Washington was planned to prod a reluctant Congress to enact a comprehensive civil rights bill.
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Public data systems devoted to civil rights goals have suffered a corresponding devalorization.
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Today, even ifthe civil rights laws were all repealed, this type of discrimination would be unlikely to reappear except in very isolated pockets.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ricci and the Inevitability of Affirmative Action:
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Rex Weyler, an American-Canadian journalist who sailed on the first boat to the Aleutian Islands, said: Greenpeace adopted a form of civil disobedience - it did for the environment what the civil rights movement did for the dispossessed.
Greenpeace at 40: A global brand in good health or an out-of-touch bureaucracy?
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If a historical parallel is necessary the successes of the coalition echo some of the strengths of the civil rights movement in the US in the 1960s.
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Typically, they would filibuster even the motion to proceed on a civil rights bill, so it was impossible to enroll your legislation and get it on the floor for a debate.
The Good Fight
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It's frustrating for the police so many declined, but the process could only be voluntary and people have the civil right not to be fingerprinted.
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The criminals were deprived of their civil rights.
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Someday the 31% of us - gay and straight, will foredo the uptight self-righteous homophobic elitists and see just a bit more constitutional civil rights in the U.S.
Isn't it queer
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At this point the debate over the civil rights bill merged into a wider national debate concerning the legitimacy of reverse discrimination.
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His actions provoked severe criticism from civil rights groups.
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As chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Mr. Marshall was the field general of the litigation portion of the civil rights revolution of the mid-Twentieth Century, directing a series of legal victories against de jure segregation, culminating in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation
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The future," said veteran civil rights campaigner Bayard Rustin, "lies in casting not just a ballot, what Thoreau called 'a piece of paper merely ', but the total vote -- the human person against injustice.
Archive 2009-01-01
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The right to privacy is now being accepted worldwide as one of independent civil rights - personal right.
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The only way to improve the housing stock is to improve it while it's being built or remodelled - it doesn't make political, economic, or civil rights sense to order homeowners to modify their existing homes.
Greener Building Codes: Cool But Costly « PubliCola
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Her single act created a spark that inspired an entire civil rights movement.
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A panel of lawyers, academics, consultants, writers and civil rights activists selected the winners.
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Racial violence began again when law enforcement officers brutalized peaceful civil rights protestors.
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The new administration moved with surprising caution in such areas as civil rights and social reform.
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Think about it: an African-American and a former civil rights "opposer".
Could Webb's Writings On Civil War Hurt Veep Chances?
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He had been opposed by a coalition of about 50 civil rights, women's and Latino organizations.
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The current climate is an absolute gift to anyone trying to introduce a cull of civil rights.
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As for whether or not homosexuals want special rights –they have all the same civil rights straights have –the right to sin, fornicate, adulterate and commit buggery in privacy with consenting adults behind their doors and even the right to commit and be faithful to a homosexual partner –but they also have the right to be straight and moral and marry one of the opposite sex and be faithful to that spouse.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
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Any attempts to bring under the mass movement for civil rights are doomed to failure.
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Politically speaking, pansexuality is a way of uniting disparate SM/fetish communities into a solid front that can more effectively fight for kinky civil rights and better educate the public about the diversity and consensuality of kinky sex.
Come Hither
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Only decades later would singer Marian Anderson's Easter Sunday concert in 1939 and Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech at the March on Washington in 1963 begin to "rescript the meaning of the Lincoln Memorial as an icon for civil rights."
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A full examination into the manner in which the raid was conducted is needed to ensure that all APD policies were followed and individuals 'civil rights were not violated.
Big Questions Still Linger In Atlanta Police Raid of Gay Bar (Blog for Democracy)
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First, they efface the history of autonomous resistance by ordinary African Americans in the city, who, it now seems, were far more representative of black Birmingham than were the sons and daughters of civil rights activists who marched themselves into jail.
A Renegade History of the United States
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He gained a reputation as being a staunch defender/supporter of civil rights.
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From the Boston Globe:Mitt Romney acknowledged yesterday that he never saw his father march with Martin Luther King Jr. as he asserted in a nationally televised speech this month, and historical evidence shows that Michigan's Governor George Romney and the civil rights leader never did march together.
Romney lied during his "I'm a Christian too" speech, said he watched his father march with Martin Luther King - never happened
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He doesn't do anything by the book, yet his classes and rants mean more than textbook lectures about civil rights.
Times, Sunday Times
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U. S. President-elect Barack Obama pays tribute today (Monday) to the late African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. by focusing on community service.
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America is a great country - from the master of slavery to a champion of civil rights and a defender of liberty and freedom, America is a symbol of great human spirit and justice. Dr T.P.Chia
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In Wally's A&M roster of two, he had the full scope of the '70s black American experience: a comedian and a folk singer, who together represented the pain, anger, flamboyance, dignity, and cartoonishness of those first post-civil rights figures.
Shawn Amos: Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 2)
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In the meantime, radical women gained a great deal of experience in the civil rights movement and the antiwar movement.
Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
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Two students say the admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin violated the federal civil rights law.
Salazar: 'This is a balanced plan'
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The African American Civil Rights movement inspired and inaugurated a new era of ethnic pride and political consciousness.
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Contract is an agreement between litigants to establish, modify and terminate the civil rights and duties.
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The studied indifference of the federal government increased disaffection among civil rights workers. Black activists especially became increasingly alienated.
