Sentences with phrase «as black rights»

I assure you, this will go the same way as black rights and womens» suffrage, it's just a question of when.

From her home office, Gloria Baylis — better known as a Black rights activist after she successfully sued the Hilton chain for discrimination in 1966 — imported and distributed medical devices for neurosurgery.

Not exact matches

If you told her she had to drape her body in a billowing black sack every time she went outside, or that her right to vote was only a right as of a few years ago, she'd tell you you'd lost your mind.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

As a young man, he argued that blacks, like women, did not deserve the right to vote.

Right now a black baby in South Carolina is twice as likely to die before her first birthday as a white baby.

Do The Right Thing, Spike Lee's 1989 fi lm about the hottest day of a Brooklyn summer, remains the most critically acclaimed thing he's ever directed; as per Maggie Anderson, it also offers a perfect summation of one of Black America's core economic problems.

«As such, if you're looking for a Black Friday TV deal, you'd be better off skipping right by the 1080p deals and going straight for the 4K sets.

In excavating the story of King's visit to Harlem Hospital, I uncovered my grandfather's own fight for civil rights — and realized I'd misunderstood his legacy as a black doctor all along.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

But you wont be able to legally discriminate sorry - just like in the 60s when you couldnt be bigoted against blacks anymore - as much as you screamed and yelled about «dem dare rights» - times are a changing please die off soon - and please, god please - do nt infect your kids with that bile - give them a chance!

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

This is a free country and it's Mia's God given right to run for Congress as a conservative and a black mormon woman.

Blacks alongside gays, alongside Hispanics, alongside the poor and the middleclass??? Shouldn't we all band together in a common cause - to be recognized and accepted, for equal rights for all members of our society??? Shouldn't the 99 % be the voice of this country - as opposed to the oppressive 1 %??? I think we should all band together - pushing for a common cause, and making America the true beacon of what a Modern society looks like!

For politics, lets see, what party views blacks as the real racists, and hates Martin Luther King and Civil Rights?

As a gay man, based upon the BLACK communities response to GAY RIGHTS, YOU ARE ARE YOUR OWN.

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

A criminal establishment full of black - robed thugs that would just as soon slit someone's throat and then have a meal right afterwards rather than live and let live.

Its a sad day when our young black men do nt have the freedom to walk through certain neighborhoods without being harrased are mudered, no one has the right to just take a life just because of the color of your skin we as a people has to stand up to injustices such as this no one wants to hear the truth there is still a racial devide in America and our justice system create laws so that this kind of injustice can continue to happen rather u want to admit it are not our young black men are the prey.

It is a tragic error that those of us who make the «self - help» argument in internal dialogue concerning alternative - development strategies for black Americans are often construed by the political right as making a public argument for a policy of «benign neglect.»

Leaders in the civil rights organizations as well as in the halls of Congress remain wedded to a conception of the black condition and to a method of appealing to the rest of the polity that undermine the dignity of our people.

There were many fine candidates on the right who were African - American, who were called traitors, Uncle Toms, house slaves, by those on the left, referring to these people as individuals who apparently did not remember that they were black.

I bet you all the average black do nt know the history of the democratic party and JFK not signing the 1st Civil Rights Bill as a senator.

Therefore, we can safely conclude that Dr. King would have embraced gay rights just as powerfully as Coretta had it not been during a time when to be so open about gay rights for a clergyman, especially one who was black and fighting other problems would have left him open to plenty of criticism and worse.

I personally think that Obama's election was more about his left wing ideology than his «skin color» because if it had only been about «skin color» then the POTUS candidates on the right who were black, would have had just as good a chance to become the POTUS, as Obama did.

The fact is that before the civil rights movement the republicans in the south were recieving plenty of aid, and as soon as the social programs for blacks began kicking in suddenly no one wanted to pay taxes anymore.

What had begun as mainline Protestant support for the classic civil - rights movement quickly morphed into liberal Protestant support for black militancy, the most strident forms of anti-Vietnam protest, the most extreme elements of the women's movement and the environmental movement, the nuclear - freeze and similar agitations, and, latterly, the gay - liberation movement.

Sojourner Truth put it far more bluntly when she (reportedly) said: «Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men,»cause Christ wasn't a woman!

CNN: Church that barred black wedding affirms commitment to equal treatment A Mississippi church that wouldn't allow a black couple to marry in its sanctuary because of the couple's race appears to be trying to right a wrong, as officials with the church's denomination decried the incident.

I commend the pastor for his moral conviction but the majority of blacks are incapable of voting on any other issue but race... its genetic... Obama could say he is an ax murderer and they still will find a way to justify their vote for him... another words Obama sees the black vote as in the bag and he is right... most of them are incapable of critical thinkng

The Mormons believe the Bible to be the word of God too!!!! J Del Gado said it right... He would be the first Mormon president just as Obama is the first black president.

Translated into program, what Washington wanted to see was blacks concentrating in the main on developing their capacities to exploit such opportunity as already lay at hand, relying on the expectation that as such self - development proceeded, blacks would be in a stronger position to make a successful claim for the full rights of citizenship.

Today's civil rights orthodoxy is to denounce as «racist» ordinary people's revulsion at behaviors among blacks that offend and threaten them, as well as policies such as affirmative action that strike them as basically unfair.

Just replace black with gay and you'll understand what is happening when people like you use their religion as a weapon against EQUAL rights in a SECULAR country.

I give the scriptures as I see them written in the book of remembrance, and the paraphrases, it is right there before us in black, and white, so what do you want from me, I'm only quoting from the book here.

2) The only reason we as a country are divided is tgat people like you and the evangelucal right don't like a black man with a strange arab sounding name as President.

I would do the same thing your doing right now, but I would urge everyone that doesn't know it to look it up there are plenty of back and forth going on with the comments as expected but the APA has a bit of a black eye from it so you know they wont be liking it.

As a middle - class white man, I have no right to tell a black man how he should or should not feel under the authority of President - elect Donald Trump.

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

In fact, the radical consequences for domestic issues of this growing black international consciousness — usually dubbed anti-Americanism by the vulgar right — frightens the new black conservatives, who find themselves viewed in many black communities as mere apologists for pernicious U.S. foreign policies.

Black church people receive limited guidance from their national judicatories on such issues as abortion, homosexuality, capital punishment, women's rights.

From our fear of calling things right and wrong, to our inability to see things as black - and - white, we've become...

As far as Mr. Graham, where the hell was he during the fight for civil rights of blacks and minoritieAs far as Mr. Graham, where the hell was he during the fight for civil rights of blacks and minoritieas Mr. Graham, where the hell was he during the fight for civil rights of blacks and minorities?

As for your silly «agenda» nonsense, gays are not a «special interest group» anymore than blacks were before the civil rights act was passed.

From our fear of calling things right and wrong, to our inability to see things as black - and - white, we've become a society that's comfortable living in the gray.

It also ignores the fact that black Christian pastors, leaders and civl rights activists used the pulpit as a means to address injustices.

So this black person, who represents a group of colored people who were once segregated and considered less than whites, is attempting to rally in other black people to tell the public they don't consider gay people to have the same rights as straight people.