Sentences with phrase «more as a civil rights»

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As civil rights historian Taylor Branch wrote in a much - talked - about 2011 Atlantic article: «The tragedy at the heart of college sports is not that some college athletes are getting paid, but that more of them are not.»

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

Advocates have portrayed the District of Columbia measure as a civil rights issue, saying studies have shown that African Americans are disproportionately more likely to be arrested on marijuana charges than are people of other races.

More than 150 organizations spanning consumer advocates, civil rights and faith organizations across the country as well as 20 state attorneys general agree with Congresswoman Waters.

using your argument we would had civil rights in this country just because goverments make certain practices illegal does tat mean that what the goverrmet s doing is moral and just, The fact s the goverment attempted to use Christaniaity to bolster it claim to power through this we have the start of the Roman Catholic Church one of the most insidious evil organzations on this planet which as doe more to oppose ad kill true follewers of Christ then ay group o this planet.

However, they were allowed to function as servants, maids, and nannies (thus you will hear Mormons insist they were «allowed» in) In 1978 — more than 10 years after the civil rights act, the IRS finally threatened to take away their tax - free status.Man!

As more states embrace marriage equality and civil rights for LGBT people, how do you think the conversation regarding their inclusion in the church will change?

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy an

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Church.

«It was those kinds of things, but as more options opened some of that was diffused in some places,» she said, noting the increase in choices came after the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Although formed in the more isolated atmosphere of Missouri Synod Lutheranism, Neuhaus came of age politically and intellectually as a participant in mainline Protestant — dominated organizations supporting civil rights and then opposing the Vietnam War.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

If this speculation has any validity, the dramatic change in attitudes toward the right to die may be part of a more general drift since World War II toward greater tolerance, as evidenced by an increase in respect for the civil liberties of «deviants» of both the «left» and the «right.»

In that speech he endorsed black nationalism as his political philosophy, thereby separating himself not only from the civil rights movement but, more important, from Muhammad, who had defined the Nation as strictly religious and apolitical.

Self - involved, self - righteous, and sullen, the adult Scout is a young woman trying to make sense of her relationship to the town, or more precisely, trying to make sense of what it means to remain in continuity with this world when its aggressive reaction to national events is at odds with her own, which, it has to be said, is not without some unseemly elements (as when she assures a relative that while she supports civil rights, she'd never want to marry a black man, personally).

Richard's political interests and abilities were called forth, while he was still a pastor in Williamsburg, during the 1960s, in his participation in the civil - rights movement and, even more so, as a leader in the antiwar movement.

No one actually takes the Monarchy seriously any more as the «Divine Right of Kings», and maybe it provides a good opportunity for discussion of precisely that wierd and anachronistic notion and the origins of state and civil authority in Western Civilization.

In the not - too - distant past our own civil rights revolution proved that, as did the more recent «velvet revolutions» in Eastern Europe and some of the former Soviet republics.

zhillia, I'm more and more convinced that the right wing in this nation seeks nothing less than a Balkanized Amurka (tm) as the pretext for Civil War Part II.

The crisis we face is at least as morally urgent as the civil rights movement — maybe even more so, since this is a ruthlessly timed test.

The Global Network, together with other civil society organisations (CSOs) and social movements, has seized this anniversary as an opportunity for stocktaking and, more importantly, to call for renewed commitment by governments, UN agencies, civil society and other stakeholders, for the full realisation of the right to adequate food and nutrition.

I'm not exactly sure what an «estate» is (I know the word is used in the Book of Common Prayer), but the civil part of the «estate» carries with it certain rights and responsibilities; those rights and responsibilities are inherent in religious marriage as well, but there's more, too.

There's a recognition that while Democrats have been the historic supporters of LGBT rights in the most recent decades, the advocates realize they need Republicans — in a midst of a civil war between a Libertarian wing and a more socially conservative wing — to take up their cause as well.

She says the committee, which is formed as a not - for - profit 501c4, is using rules intended to protect givers to charitable and civil rights concerns as a «cloak» to «shield from disclosure» names of donors who give money for more purely political purposes.

Meanwhile, the latest campaign finance reports show groups supporting HERO have raised more than $ 3 million, five times as much as opponents, according to The New Civil Rights Movement:

Cahill says he wants to do more to protect children at Charter Schools, who often come from the poorest families in the state, and says he sees it as «the civil rights issue of our time».

2/2 I also make this apology because Jeremy is right to insist on a more civil politics and as a party we should take this seriously

No fewer than 100 people from political parties, civil rights and labour organisations protested for more than an hour as police stepped up security outside the embassy in Colombo.

Please consider using more research and using more balanced words when writing about such important topics as civil rights.

In its reaction, a civil society organisation, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, said the President's use of Hausa in his salah message was discriminatory as more than half of the population would not understand him.

Backed by a broad coalition made up of labor, civil rights, and women's organizations and almost 600 faith leaders ---- what one Albany insider described as the sort of group «needed to get anything progressive done» in the Legislature ---- EPSA earlier this year launched a media drive worth more than $ 300,000 targeting specific state senators.

She says the Committee, which is formed as a not for profit 501 C 4, is using rules intended to protect givers to charitable and civil rights concerns as a «cloak» to «shield from disclosure» names of donors who give money for more purely political purposes.

Civil rights groups, including the Legal Aid Society and tghe New York Civil Liberties Union, have criticized de Blasio, a Democrat, for interpreting the state's decades - old police - officer - secrecy law, known as 50 - a of the Civil Rights Law, more strictly than any mayor in hirights groups, including the Legal Aid Society and tghe New York Civil Liberties Union, have criticized de Blasio, a Democrat, for interpreting the state's decades - old police - officer - secrecy law, known as 50 - a of the Civil Rights Law, more strictly than any mayor in hiRights Law, more strictly than any mayor in history.

«This community has come a long way,» Crowley said of Woodside, and he called for the development of more «empathy» for transgender people as well as more civil rights protections «at the state and federal level.»

As attorney general, Mr. Schneiderman filed more than 100 legal or administrative actions against Republicans in Washington, sued the Weinstein Company over potential civil rights violations, and moved to change state law so that he could prosecute President Trump's aides even if he pardoned them.

But that seemingly innocuous request to gather more information about the U.S. population has enraged census and civil rights advocates, who see it as part of a broader campaign by President Donald Trump and his administration to undermine the legitimacy of the decennial head count.

This stands in contrast to the U.S. Congress, where from the 1930s through the 1960s, many Southern legislators voted for progressive - minded economic legislation such as Social Security and other New Deal laws that expanded the role of government, while maintaining a much more conservative outlook on social issues, most prominently civil rights.

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His actions in this area brings to mind the political genius of Lyndon Baines Johnson in pushing through Title IV of the Civil Rights Act and, much more recently the pressure put upon Congress by President Barack Obama to get a comprehensive health bill through a Congress as sharply divided as the body confronted by Lincoln.

While sequels like Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier have overcome feeling like prequels to a different story audiences haven't seen yet, other entries into this super-powered universe, efforts like Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War, struggled to come across as anything other than vehicles conceived and designed to get all of these characters into one place at the right time for this May's massive Avengers: Infinity War, none of them working outside of the larger story being told and as such aren't very entertaining or worth watching more than once.

Over the next few years, as the two live in exile in Washington DC, the whole country becomes more and more caught up in the Civil Rights Movement.

Chris Evans being more comfortable than ever playing the role of noble Cap, coupled with how Civil War handles Steve's relationship with Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan, who's also solid in his own right), helps make Steve's storyline more impactful - but in the end the MCU version of Civil War is still more interesting as an Iron Man story than a Captain America story.

After living for more than thirty years under an assumed identity as a civil rights lawyer and single father in New York, he must now go on the run.

This is a riveting story of the old frontier but also a meditation on the Western, not least the sub-genre that draws on the violent heritage of the Civil War, which Tarantino quite rightly, in this film and in Django Unchained, identifies as the foundation myth of modern America, in sharp oppostion to the more comforting myths around the pursuit of human rights and liberty.

You may assume empathy and even genuinely feel empathy, but for whatever reason, be it unfamiliarity or decades of pop culture that make you assume how everyone acts, your interactions prove to be little more than micro-aggressions that serve as a biting reminder of the clear power divide despite living in a post Civil Rights America.

Tom Wilkinson (Belle)-- always good — as Johnson brings out our 36th President's humanity without ignoring his well - documented racism (which makes his role as civil - rights hero even more remarkable), and Tim Roth («Lie to Me «-RRB- seems to have a lot of fun as the smirking George Wallace (the movie needs at least one villain to hate).

Many students became more activist - oriented as the civil rights movement raised the nation's consciousness to inequalities in the American education system.

But more than anything I hope I have convinced you that using the federal civil rights apparatus to address something as central to schooling as student discipline is... complicated.

But I nonetheless urge you look beyond this worthy intermediate vision toward an even more ambitious conception of schools as politically empowering institutions that give young people the tools to fight the civil rights struggle of our and their time alongside us.

As he notes, «Much more disturbing is that half a century after the civil rights battles were fought and won, liberalism remains much more interested in making excuses for blacks than in reevaluating efforts to help them.»