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    In 1947‚ President Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights issued “To Secure These Rights.” The text emphasizes the government’s responsibility to protect Black people amid unfair treatment regarding employment‚ housing‚ and voting‚ while drawing on the morality of Americans to stand for the freedom that the nation claimed to uphold. The statement recognized that the federal government should interfere in instances of “serious wrongs” —discriminatory housing policies to lynchings—committed by private

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    Democracy as a Universal Value Amartya Sen Copyright © 1999 National Endowment for Democracy and the Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Journal of Democracy 10.3 (1999) 3-17 In the summer of 1997‚ I was asked by a leading Japanese newspaper what I thought was the most important thing that had happened in the twentieth century. I found this to be an unusually thought-provoking question‚ since so many things of gravity have happened over the last hundred years. The European empires

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    as the Marriott‚ respect the Civil Rights Act which first passed in 1964. the. Marriott adheres in prohibiting the discrimination act on the basis of race‚ national origin‚ color‚ gender‚ or religion. In 1991‚ the act was amended again and now provides solutions for the complaining party to recover punitive

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    worked super hard to solve the problems around them. Everyone of them influence people all around the world. Alex Lin helped pass an e-waste law in Rhode Island. Malala continues to fight for girls’ education. Martin Luther King jr. helped pass the civil rights movement. All of these activist has been influenced by problems around them. Alex Lin has helped the earth since 5th grade. He is an environmental Activist. He read an article that huge E-Waste flood to come. He was influenced by this problem

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    Rights To Education Rights to Edcuation The importance of learning is to enable the individual to put his potentials to optimal use. Education makes man a right thinker and a correct decision-maker. It achieves this by bringing him knowledge from the external world‚ teaching him to reason and acquainting him with past history‚ so that he can be a better judge of the present. With education‚ he finds himself in a room with all its windows open to the outside world. A well educated man is a more dependable

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    Civil Rights research Paper Between the centuries of the 15 and 18 hundreds‚ 1‚2000‚000 slaves were brought to North America from Africa to provide free and plentiful labor required by the plantation system‚ the foundation of the economy of a new united states. During the civil war Abraham Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation which freed slaves but granted him his death by assassination. During the years of 1865 through 1870‚ the thirteenth (nation agreed to no slavery)‚ fourteenth (gave

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    Civil Rights Moments Diary Antonette Brown HIS/145 March 21st‚2012 Amy Champ February 21‚ 1965 Dear Diary‚ This afternoon I went to the Audubon Ballroom to hear the great Malcolm X speak. When I got to the ballroom things was different there was protesters or police. Any other time Malcolm X meeting in the heart of Harlem had police everywhere. As usual I was with my boyfriend who followed every step of Malcolm‚ he believed that things needed to change and Malcolm

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    Discuss whether the Human Rights succeeded in doing what it was designed to do Prior to Human Right Act 1998‚ European Convention Human Rights were not directly applied by the courts and while there were infringements of the rights enshrined in the ECHR an application have to make to the Strasbourg Court when domestic avenues had been exhausted. Therefore‚ Human Right Act 1998 was incorporated in UK in 2000 to bring ECHR rights to the English law and to ensure that the public authorities

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    The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1991 were both put into place to protect the rights of individuals who are subjected to unfair treatment. The protection granted by these laws were from the basis of race‚ color‚ religion‚ sex or national origin. This particular law was considered a great achievement by legislature in regards to civil rights‚ however‚ individuals were still being retaliated against for initiating a law suits‚ thus the Civil Right Act of 1991 had to be implemented. The termination

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    Civil Rights or Civil Liberties Civil liberties are more important than civil rights for these reasons. First‚ our lives are better when the government doesn’t interfere. Second‚ civil liberties protects us from our government from causing us harm and last civil liberties makes civil rights possible. Our lives are better when the government doesn’t interfere because government shouldn’t get in the way of people’s daily lives‚ day after day. Let people be. We shouldn’t have to live with the mentally

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