As L.G.B.T. people gain civil rights, those opposed to change may harden their position.
But records show that by the 17th century, Chinese men were voluntarily submitting to castration in a desperate desire to escape poverty and gain civil service positions.
The movement went on to wage one of the great liberation battles of the 20th century, an armed campaign to overthrow the racist apartheid government and gain civil rights for the black majority.
It wasn't until the 1950s that a new generation of historians started painting an infinitely more sympathetic picture of the fight to gain civil rights for African-Americans in the post-Civil War South and not until the 1990s that authors started looking at Grant himself with less jaundiced eyes.
Many black leaders, who wanted to leverage the war to gain civil rights for African Americans, criticized Du Bois for his sudden reversal.
Rauch argues that free speech is of particular importance for minority groups struggling to gain civil rights -- indeed, "by far the most important tool".
I must lay it all on the line as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did to gain civil rights for Black Americans and others.
In this context, getting out of Myanmar might make sense for the Rohingyas and other minorities if they can avoid pirates, traffickers and ethnic violence against them and gain civil status elsewhere.
Every tactic to gain civil and human rights must not only consult and consider women of color, but it must equally center all our experiences and our communities in the construction, launching, delivery and sustainment of that movement.
These communities waged a war on the "normal" culture, by raising consciousness within their own communities (a tactic borrowed from the feminist movement), making the public aware of their social and political identities, mobilizing protests to gain civil rights, reclaiming symbols and words as an object of power and pride, and executing an agenda replete with their demands.
