Sentence examples for basic democratic rights from inspiring English sources

Around half of the black people in Michigan live in these six cities, which means that they all basically live without basic democratic rights.

"It is the way to protect our basic democratic rights".

This is normally reasonable because driving and international travel are privileges, not basic democratic rights.

Author and activist Naomi Klein said it flouted basic democratic rights.

In asserting their basic democratic rights, protesters have been met with teargas and brutality.

Some of the most dramatic occurred in Russia where, lacking basic democratic rights, clandestine groups sought to overthrow the Tsar.

Protest is a basic democratic right, won at great cost by our ancestors.

The Protestants say their marches are a matter of freedom of assembly, a basic democratic right.

The all-male Orange Order says marching is a matter of freedom of assembly, a basic democratic right.

Angry Protestants, insisting that freedom of assembly is a basic democratic right, are threatening to confront the police.

I laughed more than I expected, spurred on by the fact that in doing so I was exercising a basic democratic right.