id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4560 Civil and political rights - Wikipedia .html text/html 3656 614 63 Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life, and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, and disability;[1][2][3] and individual rights such as privacy and the freedom of thought, speech, religion, press, assembly, and movement. Social movements for civil rights[edit] Main article: Civil rights movements Civil and political rights organizations[edit] There are current organizations that exist to protect people's civil and political rights in case they are infringed upon. The ACLU is a well known non profit organization that helps to preserve freedom of speech and work to change policy.[24] Another organization is the NAACP they focus on protecting the civil rights of minorities. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Global Freedom Struggle ~ an online multimedia encyclopedia presented by the King Institute at Stanford University, includes information on over 1000 civil rights movement figures, events and organizations ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4560.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4560.txt