I don't think the civil rights movement has bettered society at all. It's a matter of perspective.Eggs Mayonnaise said:OK, you stand corrected. I don't believe this. But for many issues, the cart and the horse have changed positions, sometimes for the betterment of society.
Civil rights were still a powderkeg in the 60s when the first laws were passed, but society in general has caught up with the law, which sought to prevent citizens from being denied basic rights on the basis of personal prejudice and bias.
Let's take Chinese and Japanese racism. Why shouldn't we force their societies open and force them to accept foreigners to freely migrate there, and homosexuality to become a norm?
We do, after all, know better now them then now.......right?