Northern liberals are the chief supporters of civil rights and of integration.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

progress, or lack of it, toward civil rights in the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

`` The committee continues to feel that Florida has progressed in a sound and equitable program at both the state and local levels in its efforts to review and assess transition problems as they arise from time to time in the entire spectrum of civil rights ''.

'' My impassioned plea for civil rights created a landslide of correspondence and one sponsor even asked me to consider replacing the Eddie Cantor comedy hour on a permanent basis.

Even though in civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 the provision for the Attorney General to act was eliminated, should we nevertheless support such a clause??

A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.

The ADA is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability.

The " original intent " of the law, as co-conceived by Lex Frieden and Mitchell J. Rappaport, was to create civil rights law protections for people with disabilities that would be permanent, would not be able to be reversed or weakened, and would prohibit all discrimination.

It was also intended so that Americans with disabilities would be kept in the mainstream in terms of scientific and medical research and developments, especially opening future opportunities in Space exploration to them, as well as public policy changes, healthcare law and policy changes, and civil rights protections and public law changes for Americans with physical, mental and cognitive disabilities.

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Collins also considered it a talisman of sorts, and saw its equal emotional impact on the marchers, witnesses, and law enforcement who opposed the civil rights demonstrators.

* 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

These proclamations embodied Johnson's conciliatory policies towards the South, as well as his rush to reincorporate the former Confederate states into the union without due regard for freedmen's rights ; these positions and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with Radical Republicans who demanded harsher measures.

It extended citizenship to every person born in the United States ( except Indians on reservations ), penalized states that did not give the vote to freedmen, and most importantly, created new federal civil rights that could be protected by federal courts.

These proclamations embodied Johnson's conciliatory policies towards the South, as well as his rush to reincorporate the former Confederate states into the union without due regard for freedmen's rights ; these positions and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with Radical Republicans.

New work by historians and the civil rights movement of the 1960s brought a new perspective on Reconstruction.

Although he saved his life by turning informer, he was condemned to partial loss of civil rights and forced to leave Athens.

Both organizations engage in litigation, advocacy of civil rights, and education.

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* 2010 – Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist ( b. 1912 )

When questioned on why she followed Thomas to the second job after he had already allegedly harassed her, she said she had wanted to work in the civil rights field, she had no alternative job, " and at that time, it appeared that the sexual overtures ... had ended.

and has contributed to many scholarly and legal publications in the areas of international commercial law, bankruptcy, and civil rights.

During the Dutch Golden Age, it was conceived essentially as the anthem of the House of Orange-Nassau and its supporters-which meant, in the politics of the time, the anthem of a specific political faction which was involved in a prolonged struggle with opposing factions ( which sometimes became violent, verging on civil war ).

Der er et yndigt land () (" There is a lovely country ") is the ( civil ) national anthem of Denmark.

One of Cooke's most well-known songs " A Change Is Gonna Come " ( 1964 ) became accepted as a classic and an anthem of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

From there, it spread orally and became an anthem of Southern African American labor union and civil rights activism.

When the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya was dissolved on 20 October 2011, following the Libyan civil war and the death of Muammar Gaddafi, " Libya, Libya, Libya " was once again adopted as the new national anthem of Libya, by the National Transitional Council.

A few versions of the anthem were created by the republican side of the Spanish Civil War, therefore the anthem was seen as a miners song ( it is said the miners revolt in Asturias in 1934 was a wake-up call to the civil war ) and as a left-wing song by the right-wing Nationalists.

His 1963 song, " I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free " dealt with civil rights issues and became the unofficial anthem of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

She went on to write several popular songs, including " Little Boxes ," " What Have They Done to the Rain ," recorded by The Searchers and Joan Baez ( about nuclear fallout ), " It Isn't Nice " ( a civil rights anthem ), " Turn Around " ( about children growing up, later sung by Harry Belafonte ), and " There's a Bottom Below " ( about depression ).

The title is an allusion to Nina Simone's civil rights anthem " Mississippi Goddam " ( from the album Nina Simone in Concert ), suggesting suburbia ( Mississauga is a suburb of Toronto ) as the real battleground for LGBT equality.

These feelings were amplified when white opponents to civil rights began answering songs such as " We Shall Overcome " with the unofficial Confederate anthem.

* the preamble to the Constitution of Kentucky, which states, " We, the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties we enjoy, and invoking the continuance of these blessings, do ordain and establish this Constitution "

:" We Surrealists pronounced ourselves in favour of changing the imperialist war, in its chronic and colonial form, into a civil war.

While Bahrain's liberals have sought to use the opening of civil society to campaign against the domination of Islamic parties in politics, with a campaign to protect personal freedoms, We Have A Right, led by the civic group, Al Muntada.

We made an agreement with each other and we both been very civil to each other in our conversations.

Finally: We are to consider now what office in the Church those persons have who, being civil sovereigns, have embraced also the Christian faith?

But blood breeds blood .... We witness the growth of the bitterness of the civil war, the growing bestiality of men engaged in it.

It called for signatories to " overthrow the kingdom of darkness " and pledge that " We shall to our power relieve the church and subjects of this kingdom of that opposition that hath been exercised upon their consciences, civil rights and liberties, that men may serve him holily, without fear, and possess their civil rights in quietness, without disturbance.

" It accused the rulers of having " degenerated from the virtue and good government of their predecessors into tyranny ; governed contrary to all right laws, exercised such tyranny and arbitrary government, oppressed men in their consciences and civil rights ...", and affirmed in its final article that, " We bind and oblige ourselves to defend ourselves, and one another, in our worshipping of God, and in our natural, civil and divine rights and liberties, till we shall overcome, or send them down under debate to posterity, that they may begin where we end.

This view was also held by Nikolai Bukharin, who said that " We conceived War Communism as the universal, so to say ' normal ' form of the economic policy of the victorious proletariat and not as being related to the war, that is, conforming to a definite state of the civil war ".

In response to extensive criticism of Protect and Survive, Civil Defence: Why We Need It was also printed in November 1981 by the Home Office, which attempted to defend the reasons for civil defence.

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.

And as in these times of public danger, and until a reconciliation with Great Britain, on constitutional principles is effected ( an event we most ardently wish may soon take place ) the energy of government may be greatly impaired, so that even zeal unrestrained, may be productive of anarchy and confusion ; We do in like manner unite, associate, and solemly engage in maintenance of good order, and the public peace, to support the civil power in the due execution of the laws, so far as may be consistent with the present plan of opposition ; and to defend with our utmost power all persons from every species of outrage to themselves or their property, and to prevent any punishment, from being inflicted on any offenders, other than such, as shall be adjudged by the civil magistrate, continental congress, our convention, council of safety, or committees of observation.

# We defend the civil rights of all language communities.

We are the advance guard of a massive moral revolution that is not confined to the Negro, nor is it confined to civil rights, for our white allies know that they are not free while we are not.

In this interview he states “" We should clear a new path and devote ourselves to building a civil society by focusing our efforts on social movements, not political movements, self-consciously maintaining a distance from political power and political organs .”( document 3 ) Wang was held in custody for 17 months before receiving the charge of “ plotting to overthrow the government ,” and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Moreover, as one British civil servant wrote on August 22, 1938: We have had similar visits from other emissaries of the Reichsheer, such as Dr. Goerdeler, but those for whom these emissaries claim to speak have never given us any reasons to suppose that they would be able or willing to take action such as would lead to the overthrow of the regime.

But he told BBC1 ’ s Sunday AM: “ We cannot have a reincarnation of the old ‘ sus ’ laws under which mostly black people, ethnic minorities, were literally stopped on sight and that created a really bad atmosphere and an erosion of civil liberties .”

" The King's majesty hath the chief power in this Realm of England, and other of his Dominions, unto whom the chief Government of all Estates of this Realm, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil, in all causes doth appertain, and is not, nor ought to be, subject to any foreign jurisdiction ... We give not to our Princes the ministering either of God's Word, or of the Sacraments ... but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all Godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself ; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evildoer ...

We tend towards the view that religious ceremonies for civil partnerships should no longer be prohibited and that same sex marriage should be introduced so that same sex couples have the option of getting married if that is how they wish to demonstrate their commitment to each other.

We also believe that no religious body or its celebrants should be required to carry out same sex marriages or civil partnership ceremonies.

" Twilo general manager Mike Bindra on the other hand asserted that the club had done everything in its power to appease the city authorities even taking to extreme measures like hiring three undercover guards, " We pull people aside all night — we are literally on the verge of violating people's civil rights, just short of forcing them to give a blood test when they walk in.