Many civil rights, enacted over the past 250 years, relate to married couples only. |
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The idea of civil rights came into its own during the abolitionist campaign against slavery. |
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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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Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril. |
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In the late 1820s Georgia passed legislation abolishing tribal governments and abrogating the civil rights of Indians. |
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He was booked on suspicion of making threats with intent to terrorize and on suspicion of interfering with a person's civil rights. |
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Pensioner Ann Quinlan, who lives at St Brendan's Terrace, described the situation as an abuse of civil rights. |
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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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Unfortunately, in the case of human and civil rights, promises of jam tomorrow are simply not good enough. |
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Still ahead here, is it a question of states' rights, or is it a violation of civil rights? |
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The American tradition of black civil rights activism is now expressed through this movement. |
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Her single act created a spark that inspired an entire civil rights movement. |
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In the senate he attacked Joe McCarthy for red-baiting and stood up for civil rights. |
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The report details dozens of blatant civil rights abuses, many alleging inhumane treatment of prisoners at the hands of Department employees. |
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The NRG staged a march the day before Bogside, retracing the route of the original civil rights march in 1968 from Dungannon to Coalisland. |
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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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Just as in the great civil rights movement forty years ago, we shall overcome. |
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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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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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The civil rights revolution of the 1960s presents the relevant object lesson. |
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The government's abuse of civil rights at home goes hand in hand with its brutal imperialism abroad. |
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She spoke out and gave her life for not only civil rights but human rights. |
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All stories attributing the ending of slavery to Lincoln should be regarded as apocryphal, a mere creation of pro-Lincoln civil rights forces. |
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In 1839, the seeds of the civil rights earthquake that would rock the United States were sprinkled on a Spanish schooner named La Amistad. |
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Burton, a civil rights lawyer in Los Angeles, ran as a candidate in Tuesday's election. |
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They were lower class, and lacked the basic human civil rights that the rest of the country had. |
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But federal investigations into lynchings could only concentrate on trying to prove that the lynchers had violated their victims' civil rights. |
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Though public response has been tepid, advocates of civil rights are enthusiastic. |
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The often violent reactions of the government to civil rights marches is no less an example of right wing violence. |
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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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This event marked a major change in the temper of the civil rights movement. |
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California, which has the three strikes system, now spends more on its prison system than on education, say civil rights groups. |
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In the process, there will be little scope for the exercise of freedom, civil rights and self-determination. |
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Are you suggesting that the military is the only reason that we have civil rights and freedoms? |
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And they're modeling their action after the freedom riders from the civil rights movement. |
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The remarkable speech galvanized the civil rights movement when discrimination between whites and blacks had been strongly dominant. |
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This was the first time that whites or blacks had taught black people not to work as a form of civil rights. |
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To add to the saturation coverage, a number of independent civil rights monitors will observe events. |
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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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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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Both decided that the network would have to turn over unaired videotapes to civil litigants in a federal civil rights case. |
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However, eroding the basic civil rights of any Americans is simply un-American. |
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The next morning Jesse Jackson would come and compare us to young folks sitting in for civil rights for black citizens during his youth. |
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Her arrest helped spark the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and she became a household name. |
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Look at my work on civil rights and you'll see I'm the opposite of an Uncle Tom. |
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I believe that in the old world of civil rights you'd be termed an Uncle Tom. |
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From the late 1960s, big-city mayors and civil rights leaders charged that the census undercounted minorities and the poor. |
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Working pro bono, the lawyers helped the group charge New Jersey with violating local residents' civil rights. |
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And once again we have a community assembly of unionists, clergy and civil rights activists taking a stand on high moral ground. |
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A portion of the money raised will be donated to various civil rights and social organizations. |
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The wars over the Fair Housing Act were vicious and essentially broke the back of the civil rights consensus in the Democratic party. |
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These are briefs in support of deportation orders, decidedly not a traditional civil rights function. |
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The Association has issued a number of legal briefs to support the civil rights of individuals. |
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Yet he makes a terrible mistake in treating the traditional civil rights leaders as soreheads because they attack him. |
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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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The decision was a springboard for the growing civil rights movement in the United States. |
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Poverty often leads to conditions in which women's civil rights and social standing is far below that of men. |
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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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I'm not a heavy smoker, but I think it's an infringement of my civil rights. |
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Crucially, these laws were not struck down because they were civil rights laws. |
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They struck back at New York's finest, and the movement to attain full civil rights was born. |
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Rosa's stand has been heralded as the beginning of the US civil rights movement. |
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The Queen, who attended church as normal, was told about the incident, the latest in a string of publicity stunts by the civil rights group. |
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The lessons learned from the civil rights movement teaches us to walk with our heads held high even during challenging times. |
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One of the candidates has shown a commitment to progressive politics and championing civil rights issues. |
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Board of Education stands as a high-water mark in the modern civil rights movement. |
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Last year she was the swing vote in a 5-4 ruling that said disabled people can sue if states ignore a civil rights law on access to courthouses. |
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The station has also involved itself in civil rights and civil liberties issues. |
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Do we really want to think of the continuing civil rights debates as that sort of war? |
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Freedom of speech is one of the basic civil rights guaranteed in a democratic society. |
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Indeed, once again, our media has failed us when it comes to protecting our civil rights. |
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As with everything else in his life, his use of civil rights was entirely political. |
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Is it too naive to hope that if residents were treated as if they too had civil rights, they might behave more responsibly? |
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The Constitution stipulates the basic political and civil rights of all Russians. |
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But civil rights campaigners claimed the new moves would make little difference. |
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Law and politics should therefore grant to everyone equal political and civil rights. |
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It breaks every tenant of privacy and civil rights imaginable and will inevitably be denounced by the courts. |
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This is not to say that anyone who is not a citizen or abjures his or her citizenship is lacking in civil rights. |
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It must be pointed out that the hunt is not at all about the equality of human and civil rights, which is beyond dispute. |
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They are the latest in his hard-line approach to policing and are sure to further anger the civil rights lobby. |
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As Canadian citizens, we are living at an interesting time in national civil rights. |
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From here she launched herself into a vigorous campaign to promote human rights and civil rights. |
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He divided the prize money evenly among five organizations devoted to civil rights and peace. |
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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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This was 1971, so these were peaceniks, civil rights activists, and anti-war activists. |
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But civil rights groups and immigration lawyers point out 18 months is a conservative estimate. |
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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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During the civil rights struggle, a little black girl is chosen to integrate an elementary school. |
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Both were integrationists who situated the black and Latino struggles within the larger battle for civil rights. |
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It ignited a national firestorm of protest by civil rights and women's groups. |
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Thanks to him, definitions and constructions of civil rights have been on my mind lately. |
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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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No doubt those who champion civil rights felt flushed with a warm sense of euphoria as a result of winning the vote. |
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But once an issue is couched in the language of civil rights, its outcome is no longer in doubt. |
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We do not need to cravenly give up our own civil rights and our freedoms in order to achieve more security. |
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These officials intended to criminalize the gypsy way of life and deny a group of people their civil rights. |
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The Washington Post spoke for the liberal establishment in a September 14 editorial calling for the curtailment of democratic and civil rights. |
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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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After the political somnolence of the McCarthy era, the ban the bomb and civil rights movements awakened a new generation of young activists. |
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What will the 63-year-old prince of folk, whose anthems were adopted by the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, tell us next? |
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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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Social unrest was exploding as anti-war protestors and civil rights demonstrators used the public stage to express their views. |
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The president stood with congressional leaders, commemorating the golden anniversary of the historic civil rights day. |
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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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Public data systems devoted to civil rights goals have suffered a corresponding devalorization. |
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Kennedy went on to college, graduate school, and law school, and today is an advocate for the civil rights of people with disabilities. |
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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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A modern proponent of the Native warrior ethic, AIM supported tribal civil rights through enforced reform rather than legislation. |
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Note the dispensational process of 2,000 civil rights violations brought during a five-year period. |
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A less fantasy-based analysis might have focused more on the memory of Dixiecrats filibustering civil rights legislation. |
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In the 1950s and 1960s, the center equivocated during the great battles for civil rights. |
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The riots were an explosion of raw anger against the racism and brutality of the police, and the continued denial of basic civil rights. |
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During the post-Brown era, the notion of de facto segregation gained a great deal of traction among national civil rights leaders. |
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Like African-American civil rights leaders, they have made not just a neutral case but a positive moral case for equality. |
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Or, this year, the ways in which religious liberty is balanced against civil rights. |
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In 175 well-chosen words, he sums up the trials and the grit and bravery of the civil rights movement. |
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But the real mystery and injustice came from Brooke being essentially written out of the history of the civil rights movement. |
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The black church's historic role in providing education, social services, and a safe gathering place prefigured its historic role in the civil rights movement. |
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Perhaps the greatest irony remains that civil rights titan Caesar Chavez was a lifelong opponent of illegal immigration. |
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She was the first woman to become a lawyer in Cameroon, and had a long career as a civil rights attorney. |
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A majority of the appeals court judges have dug in their heels in a way not seen since state courts resisted federal court rulings during the civil rights movement. |
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Marriage equality is the constitutional civil rights issue of this decade. |
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African Americans set the foundation for civil rights struggle, which the Montgomery Bus Boycott Movement triggered in on the heels of the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. |
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In respect to civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. |
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Parents and children do not fully understand the privacy and civil rights issues that are being eroded by this back door introduction of teenage identity cards. |
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It has recently ruled over the country with an iron fist, increasingly solidifying its noose on civil rights and governance. |
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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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For far too many on the left the issue gets framed as a dispute between civil rights and individual rights, with civil rights having the trump card. |
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But he also reminded the younger members of the crowd of the civil rights movement of the last century. |
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For Dovgan, there was no question of waiting around for a system that would protect human and civil rights. |
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These pastors also are politically active and engaged in civil rights. |
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It took the form of an arch and insidery back-and-forth between the candidates over the role that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. played in the civil rights movement. |
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Otis Moss, Jr., the noted African-American civil rights leader and confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., concurred. |
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Thus, in 1971 the Court permitted suit against private persons who attempted to keep civil rights workers and freedom riders from entering Mississippi. |
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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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Keeping a sharp eye out for outside civil rights instigators and labor organizer agitators, they are immediately suspicious when he appears in town. |
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This essay highlights the ways in which children's literature, that is, trade books for children, became important vehicles for civil rights activism. |
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There can be no doubt about his commitment to civil rights, to ending discrimination against ethnic minorities, and to an unhyphenated Canadianism. |
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The movie is a direct reflection of the growing fear of foreign infiltration at the time, and the expanding social unrest of the civil rights movement. |
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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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Despite the civil rights movement and women's lib, the disparity of education and income levels between boomers of different races and genders is still huge. |
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Violence, the White House worried, could derail civil rights legislation on Capitol Hill. |
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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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He was a scion of immense wealth, a civil rights activist, and an art collector and patron. |
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I dont know of many people who refer to the civil rights bill as the Everett Dirksen bill. |
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Or was it a further stage in a mutually agreed transaction between civil rights and national security? |
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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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The video makes clear the struggle for marriage equality in the context of the wider post-Stonewall gay civil rights movement. |
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Black-white relations had signifiers other than the overt events of the civil rights movement. |
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The civil rights movement fought against practices that segregated blacks and whites. |
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And why do their protests all sound so much like the arguments against emancipating the slaves or giving the vote to women or ensuring civil rights regardless of race? |
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He was a hero for most black people in 1960, and his presence gave the neophyte activists a clear sense of their own contribution to the growing civil rights movement. |
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We look back now, to the civil rights movements and the female suffrage movements and hold our head in shame at the thought that it took us too long to grant these rights. |
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As far as I'm concerned, this is a simple, clean-cut civil rights issue. |
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It also has a nasty civil rights record of expelling its Nepalese minority of the country. |
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Eventually, the civil rights movement began to win the political argument. |
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The civil rights movement of the late 1960s demanded the unit be stood down, a demand which was conceded in 1970 under conditions of incipient civil war. |
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The traditional political and civil rights are not difficult to institute. |
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His family had filed a lawsuit accusing the federal government of violating his civil rights and holding him after the FBI cleared him of suspicion. |
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The three-fifths compromise so adversely affected the future of African American civil rights that,
only amendments were able to begin overturning the act seventy-seven years later. |
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The triumph of the civil rights movement was that it removed the legal practices of segregation, which made black people second and third-class citizens. |
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In 2000, she was named a MacArthur genius fellow for her work on civil rights and immigration. |
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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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And so if two candidates are a wash on matters of civil rights, why not go for the guy who is going to cut your taxes? |
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It was a backward step for women and for civil rights generally. |
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Photographs helped America get on board with civil rights and turn against the war in Vietnam. |
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To continue to deny them their full human and civil rights is not only morally reprehensible, but logistically unfeasible. |
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More familiar, but less important, were the internal squabbles and petty jealousies among civil rights leaders that hindered, but never hamstrung, the movement for justice. |
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In his younger days, Bennett killed fascists, became a hardcore anti-war liberal, and fought for civil rights. |
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Furthermore, political and civil rights of minorities need to be as much respected as those of the vociferous majority which has hegemonized the state. |
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Her powerful perspective shed light on the conditions of blacks and the injustices they endured fighting for civil rights. |
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He hopes to see the gains achieved by the U.S. civil rights movement, and maybe even a vision of ideal universal equality, reflected in the visionary future of the Federation. |
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The confessor's claims that Stuart had been fitted up shook the parochial world of late 1950s Australia, a country just waking up to the notion of civil rights. |
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Clearly the struggle for civil rights continues and desegregated schools are an important achievement that must be preserved, but school desegregation is not a panacea. |
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B has interned at the libertarian Center for Individual Rights, and has written a law review note urging Congress to narrow the scope of civil rights laws. |
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None has caused as much concern among lawmakers and civil rights groups. |
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Of course, this is not to preclude that minorities will remain in either state where they will receive full civil rights. |
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His remarkable story may be familiar to scholars and students of the civil rights movement, but remains largely unknown even to many South Carolinians. |
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The producers never glossed over the rightness of the civil rights cause. |
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Finally, we have a major film on civil rights in which African Americans are the heroes in their own story. |
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In the 1970s, conservatives who had lost the moral battle on civil rights demanded exemptions to desegregation. |
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There are Republicans who can talk about the civil rights movement and the battle for desegregation with passion and principle. |
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This work details efforts to desegregate the University of Alabama in 1956 and 1963 and also chronicles Tuscaloosa's civil rights movement. |
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Many federal civil rights cases involve police or other authorities abusing their power under ''the color of law. |
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It does not give anyone the right to supersede essential nondiscrimination and civil rights laws. |
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Members of civil rights group Let's Save Togo told their husbands there would be no nooky while Faure Gnassingbe was in office. |
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They must not be criminalised for pursuing their basic civil rights in a free, just and democratic society. |
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That is not the way to go,'' Sophie In't Veld, a leading Liberal civil rights lawmaker at the European Parliament, told The Associated Press. |
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The book covers the first sixty years of the NAACP, from the intimations in the Niagara Movement to the collapse of the civil rights revolution. |
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The Bill of Rights is an Act of the Parliament of England that deals with constitutional matters and sets out certain basic civil rights. |
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Many civil rights activists of various types were also seen as pushing a communist agenda of equality. |
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The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws. |
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The authority of the pater familias was unlimited, be it in civil rights as well as in criminal law. |
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In 1689 the Bill of Rights grants 'freedom of speech in Parliament', which lays out some of the earliest civil rights. |
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In the modern era, the concept of full citizenship encompasses not only active political rights, but full civil rights and social rights. |
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Although O'Neill was a unionist, they viewed him as being too 'soft' on the civil rights movement and opposed his policies. |
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On 24 August 1968, the civil rights movement held its first civil rights march, from Coalisland to Dungannon. |
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On 5 October 1968, a civil rights march in Derry was banned by the Northern Ireland government. |
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The SDLP initially rejected the Nationalist Party's policy of abstentionism and sought to fight for civil rights within the Stormont system. |
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In the United States, the practice of racial profiling has been ruled to be both unconstitutional and a violation of civil rights. |
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Sometimes, as with the civil rights movement's march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, they have called for armed protection. |
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His efforts helped lead India to independence in 1947, and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom worldwide. |
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Over time a large civil rights movement arose to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. |
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He asserted that the law as such was a violation of the civil rights of the people of Puerto Rico. |
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Hundreds of black and white civil rights supporters were arrested, and the jails were filled to capacity. |
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With the rise of 1960s civil rights movement, there was a dramatic increase in names of various origins. |
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It has opposed the death penalty and supported the civil rights movement and affirmative action. |
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Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. |
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Both Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Vice President Johnson had pushed for the introduction of the civil rights legislation. |
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Title IX made it easier to move civil rights cases from state courts to federal court. |
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The EEOC now played a major role in guiding judicial interpretations of civil rights legislation. |
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It paved the way for future legislation that was not limited to African American civil rights. |
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The majority of the seventeen later amendments expand individual civil rights protections. |
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Most civil rights movements relied on the technique of civil resistance, using nonviolent methods to achieve their aims. |
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In some countries, struggles for civil rights were accompanied, or followed, by civil unrest and even armed rebellion. |
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Lubin begins Romance and Rights by explaining how World War II enabled interracial intimacy to become viewed as a civil rights issue. |
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Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. |
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If a reasonable person thought a black judge should recuse himself from a civil rights case, that would be sufficient to recuse the judge? |
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Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Rocker has played his last game, at least if civil rights activists have any say in the matter. |
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He described himself as a laborite, a civil rights advocate, a civil libertarian, and an advocate for all oppressed people. |
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The Human Rights Campaign is America s largest civil rights organization working to achieve LGBT equality. |
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But Uber failed to take any steps in fixing their civil rights problem. |
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According to the masculinists, the shelters violate men's civil rights by only admitting women. |
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Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker and civil rights activist. |
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By 1963, a climactic year for the civil rights movement overall, it was becoming clear that continued state resistance to educational desegregation was futile. |
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The slaying of the civil rights activist brought a storm of protest. |
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The primary means of restoring civil rights that are lost as a result of a felony conviction are executive clemency and Expungement in the United States. |
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Set in '60s Detroit, like the rest of America, calls for civil rights and equality are increasing in volume, threatening to light the touch-paper on social unrest. |
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The partition plan required that the proposed states grant full civil rights to all people within their borders, regardless of race, religion or gender. |
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Early in his studies, a group of stern-faced upperclassmen pulled him into a dorm room and demanded to know which civil rights group he represented. |
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King on June 26, the largest civil rights inarch in the state's history. |
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Congress has given courts power to formulate common law rules in areas such as admiralty law, antitrust, bankruptcy law, interstate commerce, and civil rights. |
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Marshall notes that civil rights were among the first to be recognized and codified, followed later by political rights and still later by social rights. |
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In the civil rights era, people of African descent banded together in an inclusive community to achieve political power and gain restoration of their civil rights. |
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Despite its lack of influence during its time, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had considerable impact on later civil rights legislation in the United States. |
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Historians speculate that Smith was trying to embarrass northern Democrats who opposed civil rights for women because the clause was opposed by labor unions. |
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In 2013, some leaders in the Hong Kong Anglican Church endorsed civil rights legislation that provided legal protection for the LGBT community from discrimination. |
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The nobi were socially indistinct from freemen other than the ruling yangban class, and some possessed property rights, legal entities and civil rights. |
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Reasons included the need to regulate businesses and industries that span state borders, attempts to secure civil rights, and the provision of social services. |
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Rock music inherited the folk tradition of protest song, making political statements on subjects such as war, religion, poverty, civil rights, justice and the environment. |
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In March and April 1969, loyalists bombed water and electricity installations in Northern Ireland, blaming them on the dormant IRA and elements of the civil rights movement. |
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In this book, Kamin, a rabbi and author on civil rights, tells the story of the transition of the Loraine from a segregated motel to a museum of civil rights. |
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In late November, O'Neill promised the civil rights movement some concessions, but these were seen as too little by nationalists and too much by loyalists. |
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The Constitution of Poland is the supreme law in contemporary Poland, and the Polish legal system is based on the principle of civil rights, governed by the code of Civil Law. |
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How far have they come since Japan began carrying out affirmative action policies for the buraku four decades ago, mirroring the American civil rights movement? |
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The despair over the Democratic Party's embrace of the civil rights agenda created the Dixiecrats in the late 1940s and fueled former Alabama Gov. |
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The late 1950s era was a time when Canadian mass media carried prominent and sensational coverage of the American desegregationist and civil rights struggles. |
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Jewish-Americans during the Red Scare, African-Americans during the civil rights movement and Japanese-Americans during World War II are examples that readily spring to mind. |
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