He thought their ideas about nonviolence and disobedience could be used together to win equal rights for black Americans.

VOA: special.2011.01.17

It's a fairly recent understanding of Maybe you can just give us a little time line of what human rights means.

这是一个新近的理解,也许你可以先给我们一个时间线索,讲讲人权含义的演变。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

but as we all know, San Francisco is recognized for being in the forefront of gay rights issues.

但你也知道旧金山一直支持同性恋的合法权益。

关于旧金山的热点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Congress passed several other bills giving the federal government power to protect the rights of blacks in the southern states.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

It had come to a kind of crescendo with voter registration drives and the Voting Rights Act of 1964.

随着选民登记的进行，和在1964年通过的投票权法案,这样的事愈演愈烈。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If a corporation is legally a person, then states cannot limit corporate rights without due process of law either.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Your first thing is responsibility to fulfill your rights to your people, to your culture, to your family, to your government.

你的首要任务是履行义务而不是行使权利,对人民，对文化圈，对家庭，对政府都是如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

As part of the agreement, Hayes promised not to act aggressively to support the civil rights of black southerners.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Well, the Greeks had no concept of natural rights, or of rights that human beings were given by the gods.

当然,古希腊人没有自然权利,或者天赋人权的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In the trial, two same-sex couples argue that the state ban violates equal protection rights under the United States Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Hobbes insists on the fundamental equality of human beings, who he says are endowed with certain natural and inalienable rights.

霍布斯认为，人类应该是,基本平等的，他认为人类天生就被赋予了,一些自然和不可剥夺的权利。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This program helps support the things that were important to her: film and theater, women's rights, and civic responsibility.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

So strong and far reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state may do.

这些权利如此强大，如此深远,以至引发一个问题，如果有的话，政府可以做什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Last year, Google said a cyberattack from China had attempted to get information from the Gmail accounts of human rights activists.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

When you hear a slaveholder preach about his individual liberty and his rights, you sometimes wonder, "Come on, where do you get off?"

当你听见一个奴隶主鼓吹,他的个人自由和他的个人权利时,你有时候会想,"拜托,你是怎么做的呢"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Often,their songs teach young people about human rights and fighting for their freedoms so they can have a better future.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

And, as in the French Revolution, that is 1789 and following, and as in 1848, clubs of women began to form demanding rights.

随着法国一七八九年革命,及其后的发展,大约在一八四八年,女权俱乐部开始形成,主张女权

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Lincoln had said he opposed the decision, because it did not permit Negroes to enjoy the rights of citizenship.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

There is this real fear that large standing armies could ultimately compromise the rights of freeborn Englishmen.

他们所真正担心的是大量常备军,可能最终会危及到"生而自由"的英国人的权利

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The incidents included the murder of a civil rights activist in Mississippi and the killings of four young girls in Alabama.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

So for example, when we're talking about the rights of men and women and what they should be allowed to do, many people in our society following an ethics of autonomy will argue that they should have equal rights in all domains of behavior.

举个例子，等我们谈到男女的权利时,谈到他们有权做什么时，我们社会中很多人,受自治道德的影响都会认为,他们有平等的权利做各种各样的行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Project Green Search is looking for young women who are also concerned about the environment, animal welfare,fair trade and human rights.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Now we need to take in other things that are also articulate human rights but make them more central: rights within marriage.

现在我们需要把一些其他的事物,也归类到人权范围之内,而且要给予更多的关注：,比如说，婚内权利。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It said each of the states needed a new constitution that protected the voting rights of all black men.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

When rights came out, there was in 1948 some general understandings but they've been complicated.

大概在1948年，人权法最初崭露头角时,人们对此有一些粗略的认知,这些认知逐渐复杂化。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In nineteen fifty-two, Mister Chavez met Fred Ross, an organizer with a workers' rights group called the Community Service Organization.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

Women bear children. Well, around that fact comes a whole set of rights and obligations and duties, primarily to the family that have to be primary.

女人要生孩子，好，围绕这个事实,衍生出一整套权利，责任和义务，这些主要是对家庭而言，家庭是首要目标。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

During the campaign, Harrison had promised to enforce the civil service law that protected the job rights of government workers.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Well, there are three things that most modern states do that on the libertarian theory of rights are illegitimate or unjust.

大部分当代政府所做的三种事,在自由主义理论看来是不合法,不公正的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Jefferson and his colleagues could confidently proclaim their political rights as being colleague and the gift of a creator.

杰斐逊和他的同僚宣称,他们的政治权利是不言自明的,是造物主所赐予的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选