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How to use civil rights in a sentence

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Many civil rights, enacted over the past 250 years, relate to married couples only.
The idea of civil rights came into its own during the abolitionist campaign against slavery.
Again and again he declared that he would vigorously enforce laws which he abominates, on civil rights, abortion rights, gay rights, etc.
Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril.
In the late 1820s Georgia passed legislation abolishing tribal governments and abrogating the civil rights of Indians.
He was booked on suspicion of making threats with intent to terrorize and on suspicion of interfering with a person's civil rights.
Pensioner Ann Quinlan, who lives at St Brendan's Terrace, described the situation as an abuse of civil rights.
A child of the civil rights movement, she attended integrated schools and sends her son to one of Atlanta's tony private academies.
Unfortunately, in the case of human and civil rights, promises of jam tomorrow are simply not good enough.
Still ahead here, is it a question of states' rights, or is it a violation of civil rights?
The American tradition of black civil rights activism is now expressed through this movement.
Her single act created a spark that inspired an entire civil rights movement.
In the senate he attacked Joe McCarthy for red-baiting and stood up for civil rights.
The report details dozens of blatant civil rights abuses, many alleging inhumane treatment of prisoners at the hands of Department employees.
The NRG staged a march the day before Bogside, retracing the route of the original civil rights march in 1968 from Dungannon to Coalisland.
The anti-abortion lobby argues that a fetus is a person who is entitled to civil rights.
Just as in the great civil rights movement forty years ago, we shall overcome.
Thus, the great civil rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s developed independently of the labor movement.
Even as the southern protest movement achieved its civil rights goals, it also revived feelings of racial consciousness among African Americans.
The civil rights revolution of the 1960s presents the relevant object lesson.
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World War II marked the beginning of an important step in the evolution of the civil rights movement.
But neither the civil rights leaders nor the White House could be put off with gradualism.
Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it.
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
In this the influence of the civil rights spokesmen was paramount.
Lyndon Johnson deserves to be secularly canonized for his work on civil rights, but he never will be because of the war in Vietnam.
The new civil rights museum will be located within Pemberton Place, the home of the future new World of Coca-Cola and the Georgia Aquarium.
Most proponents of civil rights would be in accord with this slant on multiracialism.
So a populist revolt in Bahrain for full civil rights is a crisis that must be crushed by force, but a revolt in Syria is a blessed event that deserves support.
The true purpose of this bill is to hobble nonprofit organizations, including the ACLU, from working to protect all people's civil rights and civil liberties.
But when the expression of person A's religion impinges on the civil rights of person B, then freedom of religion has overstepped its bounds in a free and democratic society.
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