Civil rights are the freedoms every citizen is entitled to. Civil rights law, a civil rights case, defend civil rights.
They cover voting, speech, assembly and equal treatment, and they are held against the state rather than against neighbours. The American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s gave the phrase its weight in English.
1nouncivil rightsThe freedoms every citizen is entitled to.
“The suit was brought under civil rights legislation.”
civil rights is rights.
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