The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-09-22

Civil rights are man made Human rights God
given They expressed in the JudeoChrisan ethic
Civil rights give reality to human rights Basicay human
rights the right to fe liberty and the pursuit OF hap
piness The realization and enjoyment of these human
rights however, depend civil rights. They the mech
ansms through which human rights are made secure
They expressed through legislative enactment such
as the Bill of Rights and certain sections of the Federal
Constitution Civil rights have evolved and developed with
the evolution development of political industrial
and economic society
It is well to remember that the philosophy of human
rights expressed the Declaration of Independence
from the European Enlightenment of the 18th Century
propounded by John Locke This the philosophy of
natural rights Rights inherent in human beings
The state did not grant rights to human beings 1t pro-
tected rights already by human beings because
they human Thus governments had no right to de-
prive beings of their rights Verify governments
might their power prevent from enjoying their
human rights but they could not take them away from
human being
Thus the Declaration of Independence sets forth five
basic principles that the warp and wool of the
traditions of the 18th Century, one that certain rights
inaienabe; two doctrine of human equality three, the
of the right of the pursuit of happiness fourth the
concept of liberty five the right of revolution or the right
to change and overthrow the government when as and it
should become ntoerabe and tyrannical.
This philosophy of government grew out of the long
period of desposm and oppression of governments under
ruthless yrants preceding the English and French Amer
lean Revolutions.
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the individual such freedom of speech assembly,
freedom of worship right of habeas right to petit
ton, trial by jury, etc.
For instance Bill S. 984 states that the right to employ
ment without discrimination because of race religion
color national origin hereby recognized and &C
copied civil right of the people of the United States
Thus it, and when this Bill is enacted into law
country will have civil right part of our political
structure and function namely the right to work Next
there undoubtedly will be created civil rights such
the right education right to health and the right to
housing.
the United States has failed in any of its major posi-
tons before the world is in the of civil rights Dis
elimination against minores because of race color
gion national origin ancestry in employment relations
potax and ynching not only belle and negate pro-
fesson of democracy but constitute the most powerful
propaganda political weapon in the hands of Russian In
ternatonal Communism Thus the business making the
democratic process work in America by giving force to
civil rights will give strength and integrity to for
eign policy.
The fact that civil rights not granted to certain
mnorties eloquent testimony of the moral spiritual and
intellectual inadequaces of American society Our
American life lacks the enrichment of the fine heritage
buoyant faith in human progress.
This decadent moral condition of the U. s. A. may be
well on way though belatedy to correction Signs of
this new creative forward trend may be indicated in
Republican Democratic platforms and the splendid
civil rights report of President Harry S. Truman.
The Black Worker.