Civil rights are newer and at a higher level; they grew up with modern democracy, in which citizens need the freedom to speak and vote. They are not as self-evident as human rights. Press freedom is probably a civil rather than a human right, although the two overlap. Those deprived of civil rights-such as the right to organize an opposition party-may soon also find themselves locked up by the dictatorial regime. In the United States, equal rights in schooling and voting became major civil-rights issues.