Civil Rights

Civil Rights refer to the class of rights that protect an individual's freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations and private individuals. They ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression.

Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life, and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, national origin, color, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability; and individual rights
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March: Book One (March, #1)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
March: Book Two (March, #2)
March: Book Three (March, #3)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Brown Girl Dreaming
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The Hate U Give
Just Mercy
Between the World and Me
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)
Jon   Stewart
If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American -- our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. ...more
Jon Stewart

Tomas Schuman
[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about these political prostitutes. Aim higher. [...] They serve a purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States: all these professors and all these ...more
Yuri Bezmenov

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