Civil rights claims remain within one nation’s jurisdiction, unlike human rights claims.

Evidence

Whenever you are in a civil-rights struggle, whether you know it or not, you are confining yourself to the jurisdiction of Uncle Sam. No one from the outside world can speak out in your behalf as long as your struggle is a civil-rights struggle. Civil-rights comes within the domestic affairs of this country. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 687

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes civil rights (domestic jurisdiction, one state’s authority) from human rights (transnational authority) — a clean conceptual boundary.
• CANDY: Malcolm X’s ‘barking up the civil-rights tree, you don’t even know there’s a human-rights tree on the same floor’ is a thoroughly quotable metaphor.