civil rights

Synonyms for civil rights

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noun. similarity, balance; egalitarianism

noun. rights of man

Word Origin & History

1721, American English; specifically of black U.S. citizens from 1866.

Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it.

In this the influence of the civil rights spokesmen was paramount.

The civil rights people didn't have a damn thing to do with it.

Is it because he thinks it intolerable that a negro should have civil rights?

These natural rights are the foundation of all their civil rights.

They had freedom of worship and equality of civil rights secured.

Most of these were sentenced to hard labour and deprivation of "civil rights."

His natural rights are the foundation of all his civil rights.

In his civil rights he is as well protected as any one else.

The Civil Rights Bill of 1866 was also a cause of irritation.