Civil rights proponents countered with the legislation now before Congress.

Never very strong in Ohio's rural areas, the party's coalition suffered when the civil rights movement divided whites from civil rights proponents and minorities.

To other experts and fathers' rights proponents, the case is an exception to the rule that most judges still tend to favor mothers over fathers.

And setting up arbitrary classes of people based on assumptions about status could harm the interests of civil rights proponents and feminists.

To the dismay of states' rights proponents, he was willing to accept the federal government's financial assistance to emancipate and transport freed slaves to other countries.

Bishop Farisani was one of 10 human rights proponents who appeared at a Washington news conference last week on the report's release.

The EU will pay special attention to the problem of the rights of human rights proponents.

In this respect we must tirelessly continue to support democrats and human rights proponents wherever they are oppressed.

Perhaps the biggest disappointment of human rights proponents is China.