Sentences with phrase «not civil rights»

At least it's not the civil rights and whatever else advocates complaining about games being core of whatever violent issue is on their minds that month.

«Not our Civil Rights history — this is part of our American history.

This is a biblical view not a civil rights view.

They are doiing things that are more inline with a civil rights protest, but this is not a civil rights issue, it is just one meaningless opinion vs. another meaningless opinion.

There is not a civil rights violation!

This is absolutely NOT a civil rights issue.

It's a choice to be gay not a civil right..

Actually my comprehension is fine actually its better than yours because you dismissed the question and actually didn't answer it, and when he came back you didn't answer at all so care to now??? I would also like to know why it isn't his civil right just as much as the gays??

This isn't a civil rights issue.

This isn't a civil rights issue as many would like you to believe.

Education is not a civil right in the United States agreed a group of education panelists at a recent Askwith Forum.

To begin, many legal historians and constitutional scholars seem to agree that the equal protection clause, as originally understood, did not prohibit segregation, because integration — including integrated schools — involved a «social» right, not a civil right, and therefore fell outside the ambit of that clause.

In point of fact, we've had many disagreements of late, from Common Core to teacher evaluations, from the stacked (or not) agenda at the NewSchools shindig to whether the Elementary & Secondary Education Act (progenitor of both NCLB and ESSA) was or wasn't a civil rights law.

Union rhetoric aside, collective bargaining is not a civil right, nor is it enshrined in the Constitution or alluded to in the Bible.

Once again, access to charter schools is not a civil right.

Not exact matches

Much like the Civil Rights era in the US succeeded in part because individuals who didn't have something clear to gain stepped up publicly as allies, Leader - Chivée sees a similar parallel with women in the workplace, noting that «it takes a lot of men stepping up» to help effect long - lasting change.

The causes he embraced — not only civil rights and racial equity, but also opposing the Vietnam War and poverty — forced the nation to confront uncomfortable moral realities of the American experience.

«What's at risk is our foreign policy, that it will be influenced not by what matters — human rights, civil rights or legitimate economic interests — but by the Philippines» ability to get in the good graces of our president.»

Yet Saudi Arabia is not without its critics, who lament its poor record on human rights, draconian executions of political prisoners and military intervention in the civil war in Yemen, a conflict that has caused a humanitarian disaster in the country and one which is seen as a proxy war between the kingdom and its regional rival, Iran.

The administration's directive enraged conservatives who say federal civil rights protections pertains to a person's gender assigned at birth, not someone's changing gender identity.

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.»

«We don't want to see property destruction or see people getting hurt,» said Elad Gross, a 29 - year - old St. Louis civil rights attorney, as activists gathered in a park before going to the mall.

«A ruling by a single judge in one circuit can not and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend of the court» briefs on behalf of transgender students.

«Facebook is changing the world but it's clearly not changing the mostly white leadership and workforce,» said Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights leaders and one of the biggest proponents of the tech diversity movement.

«Advertisers, not Facebook, are responsible for both the content of their ads and what targeting criteria to use, if any,» Facebook argued in its motion to dismiss allegations that its ads violated a host of civil rights laws.

Civil rights groups reportedly delivered petitions to Google's Mountain View headquarters earlier this week urging the company to withdraw sponsorship from the Republican National Convention and flew a plane overhead with a banner reading, «Google: Don't Be Evil.

But «those incidents don't obliterate the well - established record of hostility to civil rights enforcement in other areas,» said Wade Henderson, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Ricivil rights enforcement in other areas,» said Wade Henderson, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rrights enforcement in other areas,» said Wade Henderson, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human RiCivil and Human RightsRights.

Sessions himself has said a «properly exercised» Civil Rights Division «provides tremendous benefit to American citizens» but should not be used as «a sword to assert inappropriate claims that have the effect of promoting political agendas.»

We are ordinary people, living our lives, and trying as civil - rights activist Dorothy Cotton said, to «fix what ain't right» in our society.»

While not all drone use cases by police are bad, Stanley says the potential for civil rights infringement or injury does exist.

Congress passed it to overturn the Supreme Court's 1976 decision that pregnancy discrimination is not sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In 29 states, it «s still not explicitly illegal to discriminate against both employees and prospective hires based on sexual orientation — and 32 states allow workplace discrimination based on gender identity, according to the Human Rights Campaign, America's largest civil rights organizRights Campaign, America's largest civil rights organizrights organization.

But the AIA's public policies and position statements include commandments on civil rights and diversity that do not appear to be in alignment with the GOP's victorious president - elect.

In a 2005 interview with The Associated Press, before his final crusade which was held in New York, Graham said he regretted that he didn't battle for civil rights more forcefully.

Krasner: I have — like a lot of civil rights lawyers, like a lot of activists — been beating my head against the wall of the DA's office and the [Philadelphia] police department for a long time because the DA's office in Philly was not enforcing the law against police.

While Apple has not gone as far as Salesforce in opposing the bill in Indiana, where it operates two stores, the iPhone maker has expressed its concerns earlier this year about whether that bill and others like it would undermine existing civil rights law and damage the business climate of those states.

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.

No Way» to pressure Amazon to avoid all states that can not offer statewide LGBT civil rights protections.

Of course, in business, your big picture is not going to be something as life - changing as the civil rights movement.

Shannon Minter, a transgender man who is legal director of the San Francisco - based National Center for Lesbian Rights, said many transgender civil - rights gains of recent years are based on federal statutes and court precedents that can not be quickly uRights, said many transgender civil - rights gains of recent years are based on federal statutes and court precedents that can not be quickly urights gains of recent years are based on federal statutes and court precedents that can not be quickly undone.

«The Department of Justice is committed to protecting the civil rights of all Americans, and we will not tolerate the targeting of any community in the country on the basis of their religious beliefs.

In that regard, here's an interesting story about a civil servant in Connellsville, Penn., who successfully appealed her dismissal, on the grounds that the right process hadn't been followed.

Although enforcement of the Equal Pay Act and other civil rights laws has helped to narrow the gender pay gap, these actions only cover segments of the American working population, and many important protections are not yet codified in law.

The rapper and civil rights icon have reportedly since made amends — and it's hard not to feel as though Jay - Z has ultimately taken Belafonte's criticisms to heart.

What's more, common law property rights here in the U.S. benefit mining companies in ways that simply can't be found in Latin America and other parts of the world that operate under civil law.

And it crosses over all these lines: local environmental impact, there's the climate argument, there's the First Nations rights argument, there's the stewardship argument, so it can really draw from a whole wide sector of civil society in the way that the faceless catastrophe of climate change can't.

Sen. Cory Booker (D - NJ) and Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D - NC) pushed Facebook to work with civil rights organizations to audit the company's platform and practices — for example, to ensure that advertisers can not unfairly target or exclude minority groups.

This is not to dismiss or marginalize the importance of civil and political rights such as freedom of expression and religion, but rather to adopt an integrated approach recognizing that all internationally recognized human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated.

What has emerged on the wintry plains of North Dakota is a distinctive, if not unique event in the history of American environmentalism, and a seminal struggle over civil rights and Native American sovereignty.

The BCRI is, in large part, a museum of the civil rights movement; it is not only interesting and informative, but it is deeply powerful and affecting to see how white Americans (mis) treated African Americans, what motivated civil rights activists, and what they faced in their activism.