Civil Rights Council was a pilot program in the 8th Congressional District of Massachusetts with 1,700 members.
Read more about Civil Rights Council: Background, Call To Action, Mission Statement, Policy Positions, Political Positions, Dissolution
Famous quotes containing the words civil rights, civil, rights and/or council:
“What I fear is being in the presence of evil and doing nothing. I fear that more than death.”
—Otilia De Koster, Panamanian civil rights monitor. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (December 19, 1988)
“[I]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“Since woman’s rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and classroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.”
—Children and Their Primary Schools, vol. 1, ch. 3, Central Advisory Council for Education, London (1967)