Gradually, an emphasis on individual rights began to replace the old system of social rules organized around race, gender, and sexual orientation. In the early 1960s, Blacks and Whites were segregated in the South, women were actively discriminated against in professions such as law, medicine, and engineering, and people could be arrested for being gay. By 1970, all of these had begun to change, eventually resulting in the enshrining of one of the most deeply held beliefs of our current society: that people should be treated equally. That is also, not coincidentally, one of the core beliefs of
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