Challenging Civil Rights

Challenging Human Rights
John F. Kennedy once said,¨ The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” If it came to notice that the rights of every man are being tested, not just by the law, but society, there could be positive steps taken to protect basic human rights, thus resulting in desirable conditions to defend the rights of everyone. Society defying the law and rights has been a constant struggle for years, and will continue to go on if our rights are not upheld by society at large. Human rights are norms that help protect all people from severe political, legal, and social abuses, but today's society is not only challenging, but criticizing basic human and civil rights using the law, which are holding
Harper Lee contexts a situation with Tom Robinson while his rights are being challenged, "The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box" (Lee 38). It is acknowledged that the law isn't a pure realm free of the prejudices that plague everyday life—it's subject to the same problems as society at large. The law is not necessarily perfect, but it is suppose to protect our rights as citizens, which it fails to do sometimes, giving people a lead to become worried about how the system will protect them. Similarly, the lgbtq community is being criticized for who they want to be or who they love. Global issues made it clear that, ¨A case in which several same-sex couples and the partners of two deceased gay men challenged laws in four states that prohibited same-sex marriage¨ (Gay and Lesbian n.pag.). Going to show how the law is being questioned regarding same-sex couples which reveals how much more careful humanity is towards protecting their human and civil rights. It is that X factor that will drive people to think one way of someone, and that is where the law gets played in; when people will not come to an
The standard that ¨a right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person¨ is constantly being challenged through numerous ways. Human and civil rights are something that we, as a society, have earned through freedom and equality. Thus, making it society's problem to uphold human and civil rights without any way, shape or form of question or challenging. Taking constructive steps to defy the criticism will evoke the overall meaning of human and civil rights, leading to better understanding of every