Running Head: Civil Rights

Before the civil rights act of 1964, African Americans were constitutionally discriminated against. Although the thirteenth Amendment ended slavery and servitude. The fourteenth Amendment gave anyone born in the United States citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. The Fifteenth amendment gave men of color the right to vote. The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s ‘race, color, or previous condition of servitude’. It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. The above amendments helped to create the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Act of 1964 and 1965

“How is a black man going to get ‘civil rights’ before he first wins his human rights? If the American black man will start thinking about his human rights, and then start thinking of himself as part of one of the world’s greatest people, he will see he has a case for the United Nations.”

What does it mean to be fully human? How is that different from just ‘being alive’ or ‘surviving’?

Based on your own beliefs, what do people need to live in dignity?

Are all human beings essentially equal? What is the value of human differences?

Can any of our ‘essential’ human qualities be taken from us? For example, only human beings can communicate with complex language; are you human if you lose the power of speech?

What happens when a person or government attempts to deprive someone of something that is necessary to human dignity?

What would happen if you had to give up one of these human necessities?

What does it mean to be fully person? How is that different from just ‘being alive’ or ‘surviving’?

To be fully human is to understand self-actualization and self-expression to the highest limits of human potential that makes us happy, and happiness is the goal of living life to the fullest. We can be living humans while not living as humans, going on living while not enjoying living, surviving biologically but not surviving spiritually. The standard of self-importance is to achieve a human life, a life lived entirely on humans terms and not for a day or a week but through the entire course of our life, and such a standard allows us to flourish and succeed at life, and by doing so we gain fulfillment and give meaning to our life and achieve happiness.

Based on your own beliefs, what do people need to live in dignity?

Dignity implies that each person is worthy of honor and respect for who they are, human dignity cannot be earned and cannot be taken away. It is an absolute gift given to us by God, and every other good thing in life depends on the safeguarding of our fundamental dignity. As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights puts it, recognition of the inherent dignity of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world.

Are all human beings essentially equal? What is the value of human differences?

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Everyone is entitled to equal rights, freedoms, and justice without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status.

Can any of our ‘essential’ human qualities be taken from us? For example, only human beings can communicate with complex language; are you human if you lose the power of speech?

Essential human qualities are innate qualities which cannot be taken away from us, for example love is a feeling that has no boundaries and speaks no languages, you can share love with anyone without having to speak the same language. Yes, you are still a human even you happen to lose your power of speech, you can learn sign language which others understand and can be able to communicate perfectly.

What happens when a person or government attempts to deprive someone of something that is necessary to human dignity?

If a person or government attempts to deprive someone of their necessary human dignity, another person will intervein and prosecute you by law as it is by law to protect all human rights.

What would happen if you had to give up one of these human necessities?

There is an opportunity cost to everything worthwhile in life. No matter what you’re trying to accomplish, you’ll have to give up something in order to make it happen.

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