Social Rights Quotes
The decision was unanimous. Virginia’s racist slave era tradition used the power of the state to forbid interracial marriage for the purpose of maintaining white supremacy. Most of the Southern, formerly slave, states had such laws. The most absurd aspect of the anti miscegenation laws was that all whites and Blacks—and other so caltcled “races” all emanated from the same African human female who was Black.
There were many countries whose laws proclaimed that health care was a right but could not deliver the health care to many of its citizens. However, every developed country except the United States considered health care a right and delivered health care to its people. The large majority of U. S. citizens received good health care but not as a right.
In Ireland at the time the established church—the Protestant Anglican Church of Ireland—had the legal right to collect annual Tithes from the population in order to fund the activities of the Church. One difficulty however, was that the majority of the population were Roman Catholics. The poorest of them could not afford the tithe payments to any church. Whereas in the past, the Protestant Church officials did not force the issue of tithe collection from the poor, in about 1830 they changed and seized the property of the poor (Protestants and Catholics) and auctioned it off to pay for the tithe. The Cardinal organized this campaign of using the technicalities of the laws to combat the Tithe. For example, the poor Catholic farmers gave title to their cattle to the Catholic Church and the Archbishop then had them feed and care for “his” cattle in exchange for their ability to use the milk for drinking and cheese.
