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Later on, I cofounded the world's single largest civil society campaign for education that is the Global Campaign for Education.
I'm a civil rights lawyer, and I've seen some horrible things in the world.
A few years ago, Michelle Alexander wrote "The New Jim Crow," which got Americans to see incarceration as a civil rights issue of historic proportions in a way they had not seen it before.
We're seeing states throw out Stop and Frisk as the civil rights violation that it is.
Indeed, a great deal of civil rights struggle over the last centuries has been to punch a hole through that wall and begin to feed these human things through the wall and have them become legal persons.
And although the Department of Justice declined to take their case, a team of civil rights lawyers won the first of a dozen civil suits this February, and got their clients 14 million dollars.
In the north of Uganda, there are something like 1.5 million internally displaced people, people who are not refugees in another country, but because of the civil war, which has been going on for about 20 years, they have nowhere to live.
But I believe it remains one of the greatest civil rights atrocities of our time.
What we didn't know at the time was that the civil engineers would have loved, needed the data as we recorded the box beams, the serial numbers, the locations, as we went into the rubble.
We have a monumental opportunity in front of us, before one of the few universal issues as individuals as well as a civil society: to rethink and redesign how it is we die.
By civil war, dysfunctional governance, economic inflation, from living in the locality where you had your rituals as a child?
Today, civil rights lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights are challenging CMUs in court for depriving prisoners of their due process rights and for retaliating against them for their protected political and religious speech.
This was after the fall of Gaddafi, but before Libya turned into full-blown civil war.
Despite widespread poverty, a decade-long civil war, and now recently, a devastating earthquake, Nepal has made significant strides in the fight for equality.
And I really wanted to do something about Syrian refugee kids, because children have been the worst affected by the Syrian civil war.
[The civil war in Syria may seem far away] [until you experience it yourself.]
And so it should be not fearful, it should be inspiring to the same governments that fought for civil rights, free speech and democracy in the great wars of the last century, that today, for the first time in human history, we have a technical opportunity to make billions of people safer around the world that we've never had before in human history.
When Mansa Musa came to power in 1312, much of Europe was racked by famine and civil wars.
The constitution was practically dictated at gunpoint in a military coup, and the public only accepted the tyrant because they were tired of constant civil war."
And so impeachment was adopted in the United States as a power of Congress applying to any civil officers, up to and including the president.
Second, we pair these incredible people from the tech core with the dedicated civil servants already inside government on the ground creating change.
The dedicated civil servants inside the agency decided to stand up and call for change.
The other day, one of the dedicated civil servants on the ground said something incredibly profound.
It can be very difficult for law enforcement or tax authorities, journalists, civil society to really understand what's going on.
Our ancestors were very busy surviving poverty, drought, famine, riot, disease and civil war.
About a year ago, I read an article about a tireless and intrepid civil rights leader named Bryan Stevenson.
Some of us may find it rude, others may think it's absolutely civil.
The other reason that people are not more civil is because they're skeptical and even concerned about being civil or appearing nice.
And being civil doesn't just mean that you're not a jerk.
Being truly civil means doing the small things, like smiling and saying hello in the hallway, listening fully when someone's speaking to you.
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