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Basic civil and human rights, availability of education without the fear of debt are visions of America I want to see. 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, colour, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability; and individual rights such as privacy, the freedoms of thought and conscience, speech and expression, religion, the press, assembly and movement. Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behavior, and are regularly protected as legal rights as laws. They are commonly understood as inalienable and which are "inherent in all human beings" regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any other status. They require empathy and the rule of law and impose an obligation on persons to respect the human rights of others. Although the civil rights movement of the late 20th century took place nearly 50 years ago, and yes we no longer have segregated restrooms, establishments or schools America has yet to see the …show more content…
On average caucasian women earn 78 cents to a dollar earned by a man. However black women earn 64 cents, and hispanic women earn 54 cents, Native American women earn 59 cents, Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islanders earn 65 cents, and Asian Americans earn 90 cents to every dollar a caucasian man makes. Racism consists of ideologies and practices that seek to justify, or cause, the unequal distribution of privileges or rights among different racial groups. It can take the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. It may also hold that members of different races should be treated

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