Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.
Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical integrity and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as physical or mental disability, gender, religi...
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Organizations in this sector:
- Southern Poverty Law Center ,
- Transnational Radical Party ,
- Alpha Suffrage Club ,
- American Equal Rights Association ,
- Association for Civil Rights in Israel ,
- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now ,
- BAMN ,
- Campaign for Social Justice ,
- Canadian Anti-racism Education and Research Society ,
- Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights
Quotations About This Subject:
- There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. ,
- A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states. ,
- Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. ,
- To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance. ,
- The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. ,
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. ,
- The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. ,
- The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation. ,
- "The position of orator and leader of peaceful demonstrations made [Martin Luther] King more visible. But that as an empowering liaison who won the support of white celebrities to the civil rights cause, and who channeled untold numbers of dollars toward financing that cause, made [Harry] Belafonte equally essential." ,
- "Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established."
