of civil rights under reagan by robert detlefsen''' since the above quote is being challenged by an unsourced fictitious version here is berry saying the same thing civil rights laws were not passed to give civil rights protection to all americans as the majority of this commission seems to believe instead they were passed out of a recognition that some americans already had protection because they belonged to a favored group and others including blacks hispanics and women of all races did not because they belonged to disfavored groups toward an understanding of stotts january