Are we alarmed, lest by being admitted into the enjoyment of civil rights, they will be inspired with a deadly enmity against the rights of others?
But a court of equity will not interfere to quell religious disturbances when no question as to property or civil rightsis involved.
If no question of property or civil rights arises, the court will not interfere.
In another, it was the services' expression of those liberalizing tendencies that were permeating American society during the era of civil rights activism.
All of them reached the same conclusion: traditional attitudes toward minorities must give way to democratic concepts of civil rights.
In any case this study is largely history written from the top down and is based primarily on the written records left by the administrations of five presidents and by civil rights leaders, service officials, and the press.
We must remember that the peasants, on whom a hostile soldiery was thus quartered, had no civil rights as a safeguard; that the authorities were everywhere bitterly hostile, full of cowardly animosity towards them.
But this obligation has reference rather to civil rightsthan to political privileges.
So far as the enjoyment of civil rights is concerned, the tendency is to treat them on a footing of equality with citizens.
We should also consider our obligation to assure the fullest possible measure of civil rights to the people of our territories and possessions.
The French National Assembly grants full civil rights to the Jews.
Clearly, and most obviously beyond all question, if it can pass a Civil Rights Act, it can also pass a Political Rights Act; for each is appropriate to enforce the abolition of Slavery, and to complete this work.
Such actions, he insisted, were in conflict with the contention that the States would eventually confer upon Negroes civil rights.
The problem of civil rights, however, did not immediately take precedence.
Elliott submitted also a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to report a civil rights bill.
Cain, a representative from South Carolina to the Forty-third and Forty-fifth Congresses, gave to the matter of civil rights much of his time and energy.
The President shall, in accordance with law, exercise the power of granting amnesties, special pardons, remission of sentences and restoration of civil rights.
Matters concerning special pardons, remission of sentence and restoration of civil rights shall be submitted to the President for action by the President of the Judicial Yuan in accordance with law.
Already Congress, in the exercise of this power, has passed a Civil Rights Act.
He had seen the freedman of the National Capital lifted to equality of political rights by Act of Congress; he had seen the colored race throughout the whole land lifted to equality of civil rights by Act of Congress.
As Congress made a Civil Rights Law, so should it have made a Political Rights Law.
Governor Saunders, in the capacity of United States Senator, cast a favorable ballot on measures in any manner referring to woman's civil rights, and in 1882 spoke on the platform of the National Association, at its Washington convention.
For the same reasons that I would regard an attempt to rob me of my civil rights as tyranny, do I now protest against the continued civil inequality and thralldom of woman.
The selfishness of man was readily enlisted in securing woman's civil rights, while the same element in his character antagonized her demand for political equality.
Shall the Napoleons or the Washingtons say to the Wordsworths or the Herschels, because you can not lead armies, and govern States, therefore you shall have no civil rights?
I have advised them to partition this trunk; and divide it into branches, to be spread equally among all the followers of the law of God, and all the friends of civil rights.
I see that you say that one of the great issues in the coming campaign will be civil rights; what do you mean by that?
We must be in favor of protecting American labor not only, but of protecting American capital, and we must be in favor of civil rights, and must advocate the doctrine that the Federal Government must protect all citizens.
So I am in favor of the protection of civil rights by the Federal Government, and that, in my judgment, will be one of the great issues in the next campaign.
He was right on reconstruction, on civil rights, on the currency, and, so far as I know, on all important questions.
Finally, the slave in North America could not own property and had absolutely no civil rights.
This march contributed significantly to the passage of civil rights legislation.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civil rights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
