http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/opinion/27Perlstein.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 “To those who say this civil rights program is an infringement on states’ rights,” he thundered from the convention podium, “I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states’ rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.”