Civil Rights And Human Rights

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As a human being in this world, there are certain rights that we are allotted. These rights are grouped into three categories: civil rights, political rights, and social rights which are for everyone no matter what religion, sex, nationality, age, or any other discriminatory factor. In this country and world we live in, it may seem as if our human rights are being valued, but are they really? We are said to have so many freedoms, and a right to this and that, but are all our rights really being valued? The most abused human right in past and present are civil rights. Human rights, are we entitled to them, or are they a privilege?

How did human right come about? These rights date back to Greek and Roman philosophers who believed in the idea of universal rights, freedoms that all humans everywhere were entitled to simply because humans exist ( Payne, 2013, p. 46). These philosophers included Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Marcus Tullius Cicero who was the leading stoic, ancient Greek or Roman philosopher (Payne, 2013, p. 46), and Rome’s greatest lawyer and orator. Cicero says, “True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrong-doing by its prohibitions. And it does not lay its commands or prohibitions upon good men in vain, though neither have any effect on the wicked. It is a sin to try to to [sic] alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely. We cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. And there will not be different laws at Rome and ...

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...e been set in place only applied to certain people? Discrimination will forever exist and continue to hurt and violate the civil rights of the people.

No matter the case, location, or reason, there’s always going to be someone that wants to control another individual. Yes, we’re all born in this world the same way and have our natural bon rights, but it’s all about power. Power is a dangerous motive and people will do anything to get it, and stepping on anyone that they feel is against, beneath, or different from them is no issue. Civil rights are something that the world has been both fighting for and against. This battle is nowhere near over and will probably never be, because there will always be laws in place that someone feels are violating them. This is a lose-lose situation, but maybe one day this world will come to an agreement and finally be untied as one.

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